EU businesses should not be allowed to use existing mechanisms for protecting personal data when sent outside the EU in cloud computing services, a European Parliament report has said. […]
The report said that planned revisions to the EU’s data protection law framework should include rules governing “law enforcement cooperation with the private sector”. It also recommended that the European Parliament press for the new framework to require businesses to give “prominent warnings to individual data subjects” to let them know that EU cloud data could be “exported to US jurisdiction”. […]
The report (63-page / 1.32MB PDF)
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/january/eu-urged-to-scrap-use-of-personal-data-measures-for-cloud-computing-amid-us-surveillance-concerns/