EU asks U.S. firms to play ball on privacy for data pact to work

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe sought to plug a gap in a new transatlantic data pact on Monday by urging U.S. firms to allow European Union privacy regulators to police compliance with the new rules. Brussels and Washington clinched a deal earlier this month on a new data transfer framework aimed at helping firms from both blocs seamlessly shuffle data between continents. Companies shuffle data from Europe to the United States to complete routine activities such as credit card tra