Data is a strategic resource, and how democracies govern it shapes both their economies and their security. Rules on data privacy, cross-border data flows, and platform accountability increasingly define the transatlantic relationship and the contest with authoritarian models of digital control. This hub follows the data agenda: data privacy and data protection, data governance for platforms and algorithms, cross-border data transfers between the United States and Europe, and platform accountability for the security risks of data held by strategic rivals. Fellows and analysts examine how to protect citizens’ rights and data privacy while keeping the digital economy open and competitive, and how strong data governance and platform accountability can coexist with innovation. Explore analysis and commentary on data privacy, data governance, and the digital economy.
Data and Privacy
Antitrust will not restore Europe's competitiveness. Digital autonomy, if done right, could.
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April 23, 2025
Europe Fines US Tech: What Does it Mean?
Apple and Meta are the first victims of Europe’s new digital competition law. What does it mean for the future of US-Europe relations?
April 11, 2025
Encryption Backdoors: From Child Safety To Houthis
As governments force tech companies to provide backdoors into their products, the Signal chat scandal shows that errors can be damaging.
April 9, 2025
Fintechs Against Finance Fortresses: The Battle for Data Access
As financial innovation surges, hotly debated regulations on both sides of the Atlantic could bolster change — or slow it down.
March 14, 2025
AI Aftershocks: US Copyright Licensing Booms
Copyright lawsuits against AI developers could take decades to resolve. In the meantime, the media are racing to license content to AI companies.
March 12, 2025
Antitrust Fuels Trade Tensions
Transatlantic tensions are mounting over Europe’s Digital Markets Act — politicizing previously apolitical antitrust enforcement.
January 31, 2025
Europe’s AI Act Stumbles Out of the Gate
The world’s first AI law is causing a commotion as it moves, hastily, from lofty ambition to concrete policy.
January 16, 2025
Disinformation Dilemma: Trump and TikTok Squeeze Europe
Europe’s new law designed to tame illegal online content is off to a slow start – and faces giant obstacles.
November 12, 2024
Russia’s Google ‘Joke’ Is Sourer Than it Looks
The Russian enthusiasm for the use of foreign courts against its enemies is undiminished by war.
September 3, 2024
UN Threatens Internet Freedom, Privacy, and Due Process
World leaders head to New York to review a Russian-led United Nations Cybercrime treaty. Strangely, the US, Europe, and other democracies may offer support.