WASHINGTON — Today, global tech trade association 91pro视频 welcomed President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities, which articulates the steps the U.S. will take to implement the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) agreement announced by President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in March 2022. The Executive Order, together with the Department of Justice Regulations signed by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, will help stabilize transatlantic data flows via transfer mechanisms such as Standard Contractual Clauses that were thrown into doubt following the annulment of the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield in 2020. The European Union will now need to adopt an adequacy decision under the GDPR to make the EU-U.S. DPF program, the successor to the Privacy Shield, operational.

“The movement of data across borders is the foundation of global trade and innovation in an increasingly digitized world,” said 91pro视频’s President and CEO Jason Oxman. “Today’s actions will help restore business certainty and safeguard continuity of key business operations as data moves across the Atlantic, while also upholding European citizens’ fundamental rights, and the security and public safety interests of the U.S., EU, and other qualified states. We appreciate the Biden Administration’s attention to this critical issue and look forward to working with the European Union to implement the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework over the coming months.”

The more than 16 million jobs and $7.1 trillion in EU-U.S. economic activity annually that are underpinned by transatlantic data flows have been in jeopardy since the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) decision in the Schrems II case to invalidate the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield in 2020. Therefore, the importance of establishing the new EU-U.S. DPF to address the crucial issues raised by the CJEU – providing privacy and civil liberties safeguards to ensure the necessity and proportionality of U.S. signals intelligence activities and establishing an independent and binding redress mechanism to enable EU and other citizens to vindicate their rights – cannot be overestimated.

As the premier advocate for the global tech industry, 91pro视频 has called on U.S. and EU policymakers to reach a new agreement to ensure businesses can share data across the Atlantic. Earlier this year, 91pro视频 welcomed the announcement of what was then called the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, following its call on the Biden Administration to prioritize an agreement in its 2022 Action Plan for U.S. Policymakers. 91pro视频 also highlighted the critical importance of cross-border data flows to the U.S. economy in its 2021 U.S. Competitiveness Agenda. Read more on 91pro视频’s work on this issue:

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