US data transfer agreement: Substantial • Table.Briefings

Long-awaited, now finally here: On Friday, US President Joe Biden signed presidential orders in Washington, D.C. to make way for the Privacy Shield, which failed on the EU side. The business community is hoping, the EU Commission is confident. And data protection experts consider this attempt to be ineffectual yet again.

„An important step forward for better data protection for citizens and more legal certainty for businesses – on both sides of the Atlantic,“ rejoices Commission President Ursula von der Leyen demonstratively. She had politically agreed on the new regulation with US President Joe Biden more than half a year ago. Since then, the White House has been busy drafting executive orders that guarantee a level of protection for EU personal data in the United States that is comparable to the EU framework.

US data transfer agreement: Substantial improvement or just cosmetics?

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