The Commission said on Tuesday that it expects US tech companies to apply the “same procedures” that EU authorities do when handling “market-sensitive information”, including not disclosing the personal data of EU officials working on the Digital Services Act (DSA).

The remarks follow letters sent late on Monday by the US House Judiciary Committee to ten US tech companies, including Apple, Meta, Alphabet and Amazon, in which the body led by MAGA lawmaker Jim Jordan demanded to see communications between the tech giants and so-called “foreign censors” – including information sent via private messaging channels.

The EU’s tech spokesperson, Thomas Regnier, said that “any substantial information” exchanged between EU officials working on digital laws such as the DSA and Digital Markets Act and regulated tech companies “is shared via official channels”, meaning via letters and email exchanges.