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Despite their different approaches, the EU and the US have an agreement to share personal data for commercial purposes, known as 'Privacy Shield' (Photo: Josh Hallett)

Will US privacy-lite hollow out GDPR?

Over 90 percent of the data on the internet has been created since 2016. Yet, the amount of personal information online is expected to grow exponentially in the next years.

As a result, data protection and privacy rules have either been introduced or are being considered in many countries across the world.

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which entered into force in 2018, introduced pioneering legislation that set data privacy standards for millions...

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Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

Despite their different approaches, the EU and the US have an agreement to share personal data for commercial purposes, known as 'Privacy Shield' (Photo: Josh Hallett)

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Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

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