Microsoft Corp. is the first major U.S. technology company to publicly endorse the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. In a blog post published on Monday, Microsoft pledged to opt in to the agreement’s framework, which would allow customer data to travel freely from the EU to the U.S., as long as companies processing it live up to certain privacy standards.
The blog post, written by John Frank, head of Microsoft’s EU government affairs division, comes as a working group of Europe’s privacy regulators debate whether to back the agreement, which was hammered out by the European Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce and announced back in February.
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