Rubio: 'America First’ EO Covers Cross-Border Data Transfers
Cross-border data and technology transfers are subject to President Donald Trump’s “America First” executive order, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday.
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Rubio said all federal agency efforts involving cross-border transfers of goods, services, data and technology “constitute a foreign affairs function of the United States under the Administrative Procedure Act.” He issued the determination in response to Trump’s “clear direction to place our core national interests as the guiding mission of American foreign policy, and always put America and American citizens first.”
Europeans have questioned the validity of the EU-U.S. data privacy framework under the Trump administration (see 2503050014).