European Union officials granted the U.K. a sweeping arrangement that will allow companies to continue moving personal data between the jurisdictions, pending approval from the union’s 27 member countries and privacy regulators.
The hack of software provider Accellion has renewed security experts’ fears of attacks on suppliers and highlighted the difficulty of defending against them in real time.
A growing mosaic of state-level internet privacy proposals could provide new protections for consumers and additional question marks for businesses in lieu of a nationwide framework.
Companies in Europe want to share the personal data of consumers with other firms or turn it into business applications without violating privacy rules, but there is no consensus on how to avoid revealing such potentially sensitive information.
