EU legal concepts are ‘critically important’ to review EU-US data-transfer deal, US data body chair says
By Matthew Newman ( November 17, 2022, 10:36 GMT | Insight) -- The chair of an independent US body that will conduct reviews of key aspects of an executive order to implement a new EU-US data transfer agreement says EU legal principles have been used in the order for the first time, and are “critically important” to reviewing intelligence agencies’ activities. The five-member PCLOB, which will evaluate the privacy risks of US intelligence programs, will use EU concepts of “necessity and proportionality,” its chair Sharon Bradford Franklin said.The chair of an independent US body that will conduct reviews of key aspects of an executive order to implement a new EU-US data transfer agreement says EU legal principles have been used in the order for the first time, and are “critically important” to reviewing intelligence agencies’ activities....
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