A year-old pact underpinning billions of dollars of transatlantic data transfers won a green light from the European Union yesterday after a first review to ensure the US protects Europeans’ data stored on American servers.

The EU-US Privacy Shield was agreed last year after everyday cross-border data transfers were plunged into limbo when the EU’s top court struck down a previous data-transfer pact in 2015 because it allowed US spies … Continue reading EU-US data transfer pact passes first annual review