Today, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (EO) directing the steps that the United States will take to implement the US commitments under the European Union-US Data Privacy Framework (EU-US DPF) announced by President Biden and European Commission President von der Leyen in March of 2022.
Transatlantic data flows are critical to enabling the $7.1 trillion EU-US economic relationship. The EU-US DPF will restore an important legal basis for transatlantic data flows by addressing concerns that the Court of Justice of the European Union raised in striking down the prior EU-US Privacy Shield framework as a valid data transfer mechanism under EU law.
The Executive Order bolsters an already rigorous array of privacy and civil liberties safeguards for US signals intelligence activities. It also creates an independent and binding mechanism enabling individuals in qualifying states and regional economic integration organizations, as