Good day. European authorities need more money and people to properly enforce the General Data Protection Regulation, WSJ Pro’s Catherine Stupp reports from Brussels. Investigators in some countries don’t have the right resources and some complex probes of U.S. tech giants have stretched into yearslong endeavors. 

Other news: U.S. presses Europe to uproot China's Nuctech Co., which makes passenger and cargo screening systems; and Knoxville says it won't pay ransom. 

EU privacy regulators found to lack staff, funds to enforce GDPR. Some European Union privacy regulators don’t have enough money or staff to properly enforce the bloc’s privacy rules, according to an EU assessment.

The European Commission last week published a two-year review of the GDPR that highlighted cases involving big technology firms and the handling of sensitive health data and regulatory priorities.

Ireland’s data protection commissioner also published an assessment of the law last week. The Irish regulator, which oversees tech giants such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc., because their European headquarters are in Ireland, said it would focus on how sensitive health data is handled on websites in the coming months and years.

One area of concern: the handling of data from mobile apps that track infected individuals and inform their contacts about health risk. The virus highlighted the need to clarify details about how the law applies to clinical trials and medical research, said Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, senior counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum, a think tank based in Washington.

“The pandemic makes this very urgent,” she said. 

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U.S. presses Europe to uproot Chinese security-screening company. A campaign led by the National Security Council and a handful of U.S. agencies is trying to rally European governments to uproot Nuctech Co., a well-connected Chinese state-controlled company, The Wall Street Journal reports. The U.S. contends Nuctech, whose screening systems for cargo, luggage and passengers are becoming a fixture at ports, border crossings and airports across Europe, is a threat to Western security and businesses, according to documents and people familiar with the matter.

Secrets to share: U.S. officials worry Nuctech could turn over personal and commercial data to Chinese authorities, the State Department said in a May 26 memo, viewed by the Journal. Nuctech said it was unaware of the U.S. effort and operates independently, receiving no state aid or government instructions. The company said Nuctech products don’t pose a security risk, saying they contain no secret access points and all data are kept with the customers.

Low-ball prices: Nuctech has marched into dozens of other countries aggressively competing on price, edging aside U.S.-based rivals OSI Systems, Inc. and Leidos Holdings Inc., and the U.K.’s Smiths Detection Group Ltd. The State Department, in its May 26 memo, said Nuctech’s gains came from selling goods below market prices in “a decade-long aggressive campaign to grab significant market share in critical infrastructure segments in Europe at the expense of U.S. manufacturers.” Competitors have said Nuctech prices its products at roughly 25% to 50% beneath their own.

Knoxville says it won’t pay ransom. The Tennessee city has isolated a ransomware infection in its network and is working to recover downed systems, WLTV reports. Knoxville’s “redundant and diversified IT systems and quality data backups” mean the resident services have remained available and Knoxville doesn’t plan to pay the unspecified ransom demanded after the early June attack, the city said in a statement on Friday. Knoxville hired cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Mullen Coughlin LLC, a law firm that specializes in cyber matters, to investigate.

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