Streamlined data privacy rules for businesses nearer for US, UK

The United Kingdom is closer to replicating with the U.S. a biometrics data sharing agreement it signed with South Korea in January.

The goal is to grease the skids for transferring the personal data that is so prevalent in business services.

A commitment in principle between the UK and the United States has been reached on establishing a so-called data bridge undergirding what would be an extension of the EU-U.S. data privacy framework. The agreement on sharing data between the …

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