After years of back-and-forth and twists and turns, the story of transatlantic data transfers reached a new chapter this summer when the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), which affirms the U.S. has an adequate level of protection that matches EU standards for personal data transfers, on July 10.

But for e-discovery professionals that have been caught between the stringent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements that often clash with U.S. discovery obligations, it’s unclear how much relief the DPF will bring to litigation dealing with cross-Atlantic data.