Biden’s Data Transfer Executive Order Linked to Prior Trump Action
Expect the incoming Trump administration to prioritize implementing DOJ rules that block large-scale transfers of Americans’ personal data to entities in hostile nations (see 2501060042), David Wright Tremaine attorneys said Monday.
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DOJ released the rule Monday in response to President Joe Biden’s executive order 14117, which, attorneys said, “expressly builds” on EO 13873. President-elect Donald Trump signed the latter in 2019, during his first term.
They noted Trump’s EO “declared a national emergency related to foreign threats to U.S. information and communications technology and services and prohibited U.S. persons from engaging in certain transactions involving foreign design, development, manufacture or supply of such technology and services.”