U.S. national security considerations involving the transfer of sensitive personal data to adversarial countries could present an opportunity to forge a multilateral treaty on cross-border data transfers, Baker McKenzie Privacy and Security Global Chair Brian Hengesbaugh, CIPP/US, writes. With the U.S. government now concerned with risks posed by outbound data transfers, Western countries could look to agreements like the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data Held by Private Sector Entities as frameworks upon which to build trust.
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