The European Commission and the United States announced in a joint statement earlier this year that an agreement on the principles of a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework had been reached. After this announcement, everyone has been waiting for the publication of the Executive Order to be issued by the President of the US, on the basis of which the necessary adequacy review could be commenced by the European Commission. After several months of waiting, President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on October 7, which, in response to the most important concerns regarding data transfers to the US, puts some limits on United States signals intelligence activities and provides additional data protection safeguards.
