Mixed response to Biden’s executive order on data transfer leaves businesses hanging

Data flow is vital to the $17trn dollar trading relationship between the US and EU, but concerns over privacy won’t go away.

When President Biden signed an executive order to implement a framework to protect the privacy of data flowing between the US and Europe on 7 October, it sparked hope that a major issue facing businesses on both sides of the Atlantic was closer to being resolved. That may turn out

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