Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday designed to protect the privacy of personal data transfers between the EU and the United States and address European concerns about US spying activity. The executive order provides a new legal framework for transatlantic data flows that are critical to the digital economy, the White House said. The move by Biden is the latest attempt to end years of court battles in which activists in Europe have questioned the legality of the data transfers and thrown the EU operations of US Big Tech into jeopardy. “This is a culmi…