<div dir="ltr"><p>By <a href="http://www.ip-watch.org/author/monika/" title="Posts by Monika Ermert" rel="author">Monika Ermert</a> for Intellectual Property Watch</p>
<p>A huge majority of the European Parliament today called for a
stop to mass surveillance and a digital “New Deal” to enpower European
citizens and companies following a six-month inquiry into the US
National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence service
surveillance programmes by the Parliamen’s Committee on Civil Liberties,
Justice and Home Affairs. <span id="more-34770"></span></p>
<p>Today’s report calls on both US and EU member states to prohibit
blanket mass surveillance activities. Rapporteur Claude Moreas
(Socialists and Democrat, S&D) expressed his satisfaction in a press
conference immediately after the vote with <b>544 against 78 votes</b>.</p><p><a href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/03/12/eu-parliament-passes-call-against-surveillance-and-for-digital-new-deal-ttip-can-proceed/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts">http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/03/12/eu-parliament-passes-call-against-surveillance-and-for-digital-new-deal-ttip-can-proceed/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts</a><br>
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