US, EU Officials to ‘Intensify’ PS Negotiations

The U.S. and European Commission will “intensify” negotiations on an “enhanced” EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework to comply with the Schrems II decision (see 2101150016), Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced Thursday with European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders. The negotiations “underscore our shared commitment to privacy, data protection and the rule of law and our mutual recognition of the importance of transatlantic data flows to our respective citizens, economies, and societies,” they said. Also Thursday, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation said the U.S. and EU should forge a "pragmatic" digital alliance for data transfers (see 2103250004).