US, EU Officials Call for Bilateral Collaboration on Data Privacy Standards
The U.S. should be working with the EU to establish global standards on privacy, safety and security, American and European officials said Wednesday during the Business Software Alliance’s Transform event.
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Privacy Daily provides accurate coverage of newsworthy developments in data protection legislation, regulation, litigation, and enforcement for privacy professionals responsible for ensuring effective organizational data privacy compliance.
Department of Commerce’s Bill Guidera, deputy assistant secretary for services at the International Trade Association, referenced U.S.-EU work on the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) and the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR). He was asked what he hopes data policy will look like at the end of the Trump administration.
The DPF and CBPR are “fabulous frameworks,” and “freedom-loving democracies” should be setting standards on technology, he said. “That is a means by which we can establish supremacy in this space.” He called for legal standardization on data management, practices and governance.
EU Ambassador to the U.S. Jovita Neliupsiene said cross-border data transfers is a policy area without significant friction between the two sides, and the partnership can be expanded. Technology dominance is based on “setting the rules and setting the standards,” she said, and like-minded international partners should be setting those standards. “Do you really want to live in a world where the others are setting the standards?”
The DPF's future was in the news earlier this week when a European Parliament member seemed to question its efficacy, presumably in light of turmoil at the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (see 251030002). President Donald Trump fired three Democratic board members in January (see 2501280044).