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EPIC Credits DOJ for Maintaining Strength of Data Transfer Rules

DOJ was right to maintain an entity-neutral approach when finalizing rules that block large-scale transfers of Americans’ personal data to hostile nations (see 2501070056), the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Wednesday.

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EPIC credited DOJ for not weakening “the strong, entity-neutral approach to regulating the sale of specific forms of sensitive data, despite comments from industry urging the agency to do so” during the rulemaking process.

In addition, the organization welcomed DOJ’s adoption of EPIC’s edits on definitions for covered transactions. EPIC noted that DOJ, however, declined to expand the “definition of sensitive personal data by increasing the protection on social security numbers.”