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EU-US agree personal data transfer rules but privacy concerns remain

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An agreement allowing personal data to be more easily transferred between the EU and the US has been finalized, but further legal challenges are expected.

The formal adoption of what’s known as an adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework deals with Article 45(3) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This article states that the personal information of EU citizens is permitted to flow freely to jurisdictions in which there is an