DHAKA: The EU pressed US politicians to give EU citizens the right to legal redress to protect their personal data, after US spying revelations soured ties with major allies.

EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding told a delegation led by US Senator Christopher Murphy that their visit showed ‘we are talking and listening, not spying on each other’, reports The Voice of Russia.

She said she had made it ‘very clear’ that the European Commission expects Washington to follow through on promises to give EU citizens not resident in the United States ‘enforceable rights’ over their personal data.

This involves ‘notably the possibility to obtain judicial redress in the United States when their personal data is misused’, she said in a statement.

‘I have also made clear that Europe expects to see the necessary legislative change... sooner rather than later, and in any case before summer 2014.’

BDST: 2028 HRS, NOV 26, 2013