Biden’s Data-Transfer Order May Soon Unlock EU-US Pact
- EU set to publish draft data flows pact next month, EU says
- Bloc’s top court toppled previous pacts over US spying fears
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Transatlantic data flows worth billions of dollars a year look on course to be safeguarded -- for now -- after regulators signaled that the US privacy protections will soon be deemed “adequate.”
A draft decision on a new EU-US pact could be ready as soon as next month, after an executive order by President Joe Biden addressed EU concerns about US spies accessing EU citizens’ data by promising several changes, including a so-called Data Protection Review Court.