The European Commission has signed a landmark agreement with the U.S. in its quest to legitimize the transatlantic flow of European Union citizens’ personal information.
No, it’s not the embattled Privacy Shield, which the Commission hopes to conclude later this month, but the rather flimsier-sounding umbrella agreement or, more formally, the U.S.-EU agreement “on the protection of personal information relating to the prevention, investigation, detection, and prosecution of criminal offenses.”
