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29% -- organizations citing cross border transfers as top privacy exposure for organisations using third-party vendors (2026)
According to the Kiteworks 2026 Data Security and Compliance Risk Forecast, 29% of organisations cite cross-border transfers via third-party vendors as their top privacy exposure.
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https://flashsip.com/en/the-us-cloud-act-why-eu-data-isnt-safe-on-us-servers/ ↗
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The US CLOUD Act: Why "EU Data" Isn't Safe on US Servers - Flashsip
The US CLOUD Act, EU data on US servers, and the unresolved structural problem of cross-border data access sit at the centre of most significant GDPR enforcement actions involving international data transfers. Understanding how the CLOUD Act works – and why no contractual workaround resolves it – is…
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Kiteworks 2026 Data Security and Compliance Risk Forecast survey
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organisations using third-party vendors: 29% organizations citing cross border transfers as top privacy exposure. Source: Kiteworks (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/kiteworks-cross-border-privacy-exposure-2026
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