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Cloudflare rejects Portuguese privacy authority's claims of US data transfers, GDPR violation

By Matthew Newman ( April 29, 2021, 16:30 GMT | Insight) -- US cloud service provider Cloudflare has rejected claims by Portugal’s data protection authority that its contract with the country’s statistics office involved transferring personal data to the US in violation of EU privacy rules. The move follows the regulator's order against the statistics office to suspend international data flows to the US because there's “no guarantee” that citizens’ data won’t be accessed by US surveillance authorities during transfers to the US and other countries outside the EU, a violation of the bloc's data protection rules.US cloud service provider Cloudflare has rejected claims by Portugal’s data protection authority that its contract with the country’s statistics office involved transferring personal data to the US in violation of EU privacy rules....

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