EU Council approves reform to break down barriers for free movement of data

Tom Allen
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The regulation should make it easier to switch cloud providers or recover data from them

The European Council, a body formed of the heads of state or government for the 28 member states, has approved a reform to the way that movement of data is treated in the European Union. The reform...

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