What the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework means for business

Legal challenges await the DPF and businesses should keep their options open

John Leonard
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What the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework means for business
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What the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework means for business

The new arrangement for EU-US transfer of personal data is an improvement over previous regulations in privacy terms, but has enough changed for the European Court of Justice to see it that way?

The EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), which was signed into EU law last week, means that companies wishing to transfer personal data to the US no longer have to rely on individual arrangements li...

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