US NSA surveillance programme, surveillance bodies in various Member States and impact on EU citizens' fundamental rights and on transatlantic cooperation in Justice and Home Affairs

The dossier concerns the US NSA surveillance programme, surveillance bodies in various Member States and the impact on EU citizens' fundamental rights and on transatlantic cooperation in Justice and Home Affairs. The amendments call for accelerating the Data Protection Package, promote 'privacy by design' and 'by default', address cloud-computing risks and European clouds, and propose suspending or conditioning the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations.