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Data bridge over troubled water: Breakthrough on Privacy Shield 2.0

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Cliodhna Ni Ghadhra | Macfarlanes, Rosie Duckworth | Macfarlanes

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The aim of the data bridge is to simplify the transfer of UK personal data to the US.

On June 8, 2023, UK and US government officials announced that they had “committed in principle” to establishing a data bridge that would operate as a UK-specific extension to new data privacy framework agreement that is currently being negotiated between the US and the EU (the Privacy Shield 2.0). This agreement in

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