Social networks can keep storing EU user data in the US under new agreement

The European Union and the US have settled on a new transatlantic data-sharing pact. In an announcement on Monday, the European Commission says the new framework should allow information to flow freely between both locations, easing risks for social media companies that operate across them.

The decision comes three years after the EU’s top court struck down the Privacy Shield, a protocol that let companies based in the US collect and …

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