The Privacy Shield framework is supposed to protect companies that
   transfer personal data from the EU to the US. The US promised the EU
   that it would provide data protection and put some limits on the US'
   mass surveillance. Some members of the EU parliament are calling for
   Privacy Shield to be suspended or at least re-negotiated. The US
   Department of Commerce allowed known NSA contractors to join the
   Privacy Shield program.

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