Strengthening Transatlantic Trust: European Commission Adopts New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for Secure Data Flows

New news from the EU Commission:

The European Commission has adopted a new adequacy decision for safe and trusted EU-US data flows, known as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

This decision concludes that the United States provides an adequate level of protection, comparable to that of the European Union, for personal data transferred from the EU to US companies under the new framework.

The new framework introduces binding safeguards to address concerns raised by the European Court of Justice, including limiting access to EU data by US intelligence services to what is necessary and proportionate and establishing a Data Protection Review Court (DPRC), to which EU individuals will have access.

The new framework also introduces significant improvements compared to the mechanism that existed under the Privacy Shield.

President Ursula von der Leyen stated that the new framework will ensure safe data flows for Europeans and bring legal certainty to companies on both sides of the Atlantic.

The functioning of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework will be subject to periodic reviews, to be carried out by the European Commission, together with representatives of European data protection authorities and competent US authorities. The first review will take place within a year of the entry into force of the adequacy decision.

Accessing this link you’ll see the FAQs about this new framework.