EU-US data transfer deal’s future questioned by EU lawmaker
By Matthew Newman ( February 12, 2025, 14:34 GMT | Insight) -- Raquel García Hermida-van der Walle, a European Parliament member, has asked the European Commission whether Donald Trump’s “interference” with an independent board that helps oversee a crucial EU-US data-transfer agreement could be grounds for suspending the arrangement. The questions follow a series of developments in which the US President has fired three members of an oversight board, and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has gained access to sensitive data in government databases.A European Parliament member has asked the European Commission whether US President Donald Trump’s “interference” with an independent board that helps oversee a crucial EU-US data-transfer agreement could be grounds for suspending the arrangement....
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