On 25 March 2022 US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced an "agreement in principle" on EU‑US data transfers, but six months later no concrete framework has been published. The CJEU has previously struck down the Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield agreements, and concerns persist about US surveillance safeguards. National data protection authorities have taken actions, such as banning Google Analytics in the EU.
Why it matters: The lack of an operational EU‑US data transfer framework sustains legal uncertainty for transatlantic data flows under the GDPR.
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