A US-UK agreement is changing how tech companies respond to law enforcement requests

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What you should know about the Data Access Agreement.

, many social media platforms and messaging services are based in the US, which prohibits these companies from responding directly to requests from foreign governments. Instead, there has traditionally been a “government-to-government” process that had to be initiated, which the UK describes as “very slow, often taking many months to complete.

In the joint statement, the US and UK stressed that the agreement “will maintain the strong oversight and protections that our citizens enjoy and does not compromise or erode the human rights and freedoms that our nations cherish and share.” However,

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