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EU's model for data transfer agreements flawed, US DOJ official says

By Matthew Newman ( April 21, 2026, 22:10 GMT | Insight) -- The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation doesn’t serve the values it was designed to protect, damages the EU’s competitiveness and makes trans-Atlantic cooperation more difficult, a senior US Justice Department official said Tuesday. Peter Winn discussed an alternative to a US-EU data transfer framework for data flows that’s based on an agreement at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2022.The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation doesn’t serve the values it was designed to protect, damages the EU’s competitiveness and makes trans-Atlantic cooperation more difficult, a senior US Justice Department official said Tuesday....

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