EDPB requests review of EU-US Data Privacy Framework following Trump v. Slaughter
The European Data Protection Board has called for a review of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework following the Trump v. Slaughter case, which relates to the dismissal of Federal Trade Commission members and raises concerns about the independence of the US enforcement body underpinning the transatlantic data transfer agreement.
Why this matters: The EU-US Data Privacy Framework exists because Europeans were promised that US authorities would independently enforce privacy protections for their data. If the FTC can be politically controlled — its members fired at will — that promise weakens. The EDPB is not being alarmist here. It is doing its job: checking whether the legal foundation still holds. If it does not, companies that rely on the framework to move data across the Atlantic will face real legal exposure, and quickly.
Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · AI governance · General readers · Policy
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