Updated: January 21, 2020
On January 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officially notified the Congress of its certification of the agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom on Access to Electronic Data for the Purpose of Countering Serious Crime. While the DOJ had previously sent the U.S./UK CLOUD Act Executive Agreement to Congress on December 4, 2019, and intended to notify the relevant committees at that time, “because of a clerical error, [the DOJ] did not provide actual notification to those committees until January 10, 2020.”