In July 2023, the EU and U.S. agreed on a new “Data Privacy Framework,” allowing data transfers as long as particular privacy guarantees and protections were made. Microsoft nonetheless last year announced plans to keep all European cloud customers’ personal data within the EU.
Kyle Wiggers is a senior reporter at TechCrunch with a special interest in artificial intelligence. His writing has appeared in VentureBeat and Digital Trends, as well as a range of gadget blogs including Android Police, Android Authority, Droid-Life, and XDA-Developers. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, a piano educator, and dabbles in piano himself. occasionally — if mostly unsuccessfully.