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EU reveals its draft decision on replacement US data transfer deal

December 14, 2022

Via: Techradar

The European Commission has announced that a Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, a voluntary agreement placing protections on EU data dealt with by US companies, is set to be approved by EU member states.

In a press release(opens in new tab), the EC stated that its draft adequacy decision(opens in new tab) has been “published and transmitted” to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) for review, the first stage leading to fully-fledged adoption.

The framework involves US companies promising to respect EU data according to a number of well-established data protection principles, such as deleting data when it is no longer necessary for the purpose it was collected, and continuing to ensure a level of privacy when data is passed to third parties.

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