British digital secretary Nadine Dorries and the United States commerce secretary Gina M. Raimondo have issued a statement on a commitment to deepen the existing UK-US data partnership.

They said that the partnership could play a key role in shaping a global data ecosystem, adding that the UK and US would work together to build trust in the ways their governments access information for the purposes of public safety, national security, and law enforcement investigations.

They warned that the challenges facing cross-border data flows are increasingly global, suggesting the need for solutions that work across multiple jurisdictions.

“We recognise the negative trends that risk closing off international data flows,” they said in a joint statement. “In response, we seek to shape a global data ecosystem in a manner that promotes and advances interoperability between different data protection frameworks, facilitating cross-border data flows while maintaining high standards of data protection and trust.”

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