Privacy issue: Ross confirmed his support for the crucial pillars of the data transfer pact.
BRUSSELS: US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross gave no indication of any plans to change US privacy protections underpinning a pact enabling billions of dollars of data flows during a meeting with the EU digital chief, a source said.
US President Trump's administration has stoked concerns in Brussels that it may undo some of the privacy protections put in place by the previous administration that were crucial to a transatlantic pact allowing companies to store EU citizens' data on US servers.
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