the european commission said monday it has adopted a new legal framework to protect europeans personal data in exchanges with the united states its third attempt to get past legal challenges the announcement was made possible after the united states updated its rules on the snooping of international data flows to give safeguards to people living in the european union the eu executive said today we take an important step to provide trust to eu citizens that their data is safe to deepen our economic ties between the eu and the us and at the same time to reaffirm our shared values commission chief ursula von der leyen said