US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday 7 October to strengthen privacy protections in the context of transatlantic data transfers. The order comes six months after the US President and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced an agreement in principle on a new data transfer agreement (see EUROPE B12919A11) to replace the old ‘Privacy Shield’ framework, which was invalidated by the Court of Justice of the European Union in July 2020 (see EUROPE...