Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps her Department has taken to provide legal protections to UK citizens personal data that may be intercepted by large, US companies.

Under UK law, all organisations in the UK that process personal information have to ensure that high standards of data protection are maintained when personal data is transferred overseas.

DCMS is working with the US Government to put in place a durable UK-US Data Bridge that upholds the UK’s high standards of data protection.

Earlier this year, the ICO issued the UK’s International Data Transfer Agreement to help organisations safely transfer personal data across borders.

The United States and the UK are also collaborating on a bilateral innovation prize challenge focused on advancing privacy-enhancing technologies to help mature and facilitate adoption of these technologies.