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Battle over spying versus legitimate data transfer heats up in Congress

01/28/2016 4:53 pm ET On Data Protection Day, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 19-1 in favor of the Judicial Redress Act, which would extend to European citizens the right to sue particular US government agencies if their electronic data is mishandled in a law enforcement investigation. The bill points to distinction between data rights in the US and Europe.