'Privacy shield' – the new deal governing how Europe's user data is sent to the US
by Reuters from Technology | The Guardian on (#15HNQ)
It has taken two years, but there is finally an agreement over how US companies, including Google and Facebook, will transfer their users' data out of Europe
Europe sought to plug a gap in a new transatlantic data pact on Monday by urging US 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.
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