Europe and the U.S. finally agree a landmark data-sharing pact — and it’s already under threat

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Source: CNBC

Businesses can continue transferring data from the European Union to the U.S. as normal after the two superpowers this week agreed a landmark data-sharing pact.

The framework, which replaces a previous agreement that was invalidated in 2020, is a major development with implications for U.S. tech giants, which rely on the pact to transfer data on their European users back to America.

Without it in place, these companies faced the risk of costly initiatives to process and store user data locally — or withdraw their business from the bloc altogether. So the agreement of the new rules will provide some relief to Meta and other U.S. companies which share gargantuan amounts of user data around the world.

Read full article: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/eu-and-us-agree-new-data-sharing-deal-what-is-it-and-why-it-matters.html?

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