( ) -q-27- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “adding extra security.” The European Union has signed off on a new agreement over the privacy of people’s personal information that gets pinged across the Atlantic. [CutID: <Cuts> EU-PERSONAL-INFO-house-q-TUEam.mp3 Time: 26s Title: EU-PERSONAL-INFO-house-q-TUEam Out-cue: adding extra security] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. The agreement comes after two earlier […]
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Europe signs off on a new privacy pact that allows people’s data to keep flowing to US
( ) -q-27- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “adding extra security.”
The European Union has signed off on a new agreement over the privacy of people’s personal information that gets pinged across the Atlantic.
[CutID: <Cuts> EU-PERSONAL-INFO-house-q-TUEam.mp3
Time: 26s
Title: EU-PERSONAL-INFO-house-q-TUEam
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. The agreement comes after two earlier data transfer agreements were tossed. The European privacy campaigner who triggered the legal challenges, however, vowed to challenge it to the EU’s top court.
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VERBATIM” The E-U’s action is aimed at easing concerns about electronic spying by American intelligence agencies. The E-U’s executive commission deemed the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework to have an adequate level of protection for personal data. That means it’s comparable to the 27-nation’s own stringent data protection standards, so companies can use it to move information from Europe to the United States without adding extra security.