The U.S. and the European Union (EU) have a preliminary agreement over the storing of European data on U.S. soil. It was announced by President Biden and EU President Ursula von der Leyen, speaking on Friday March 25. If successful, the data agreement would resolve a significant point of contention in U.S.-EU relations since a previous deal regulating trans-Atlantic data flows – Privacy Shield – was deemed illegal by the EU’s top court in 2020. It ruled that the U.S. did not provide EU citizens effective means to challenge U.S. government surveillance of their data.
