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They told Politico: “The Commission can’t fulfil its ambitions for strategic autonomy when bureaucratic loopholes allow for non-EU countries with a history of abusing privacy to benefit from multibillion contracts.
“This company will be managing the transmission of very sensitive data being sent between public bodies that are paid for by EU citizens. Risking the wider exposure of this information is perilous.
“This smacks of hypocrisy. At a time in which the Commission is pitching its objective of strategic autonomy, it is outsourcing the management of sensitive communications to third countries.
“For those that supported Brexit, this proves that you can leave the EU but your companies can still cream off billion-euro EU contracts.
The Trans-European Services for Telematics between Administrations (TESTA) is meant to be a fully private “backbone” network that preserves the confidentiality and privacy of communications.
It links EU agencies and bodies across the Continent, from the Commission in Brussels to the likes of Europol, the EU’s cybersecurity agency ENISA, or the European Defense Agency.
The commission has said the network connects more than 750 public entities and is designed for “sensitive pan-European information exchanges.”
Deutsche Telekom held the previous contract and several EU firms had been in the running to win the new contract.
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They said: “BT operates one of the most secure and resilient global networks, which is trusted by the world’s leading multinational companies and international organisations.”
In the past Brussels has been concerned about the impacts of intrusive British espionage and the UK’s membership of the Five Eyes security alliance.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said in a 2018 ruling that UK authorities had violated privacy rights in its mass surveillance program, as well as having unlawfully shared data with global partners.
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