The goal of the meetings is to gradually align the regulators’ approaches to privacy and better understand domestic rules in each jurisdiction.
Data transfers
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is touting ‘Enhanced Border Security Agreements’, offering access to its vast biometric databanks in exchange for other states reciprocating.
The Danish data protection authority banned a municipality's use of Google Workspace for Education and suspended all US transfers.
The EU Commission is faces a lawsuit over allegations it is violating GDPR rules when transferring citizens' personal data from one of its websites to the US.
Privacy experts had also questioned the appropriateness of TikTok using a legitimate interest ground to run behavioral advertising.
The Irish DPC informed its EU DPA counterparts of its draft decision to halt Meta's data flows from the EU to the U.S.
“I'm quite confident in the fact that we have a robust solution," Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said in an interview.
Schrems III on the cards unless negotiators protect better oversight of US data access requests.
Nations are accelerating efforts to control data produced within their perimeters, disrupting the flow of what has become a kind of digital currency.
The justices gave the U.S. government more latitude to invoke “state secrets” in surveillance cases.
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