US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers
The US Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. Slaughter puts the FTC's independence in doubt, threatening the legal foundation of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The current adequacy decision depends heavily on the FTC acting as an independent enforcement body, a status that may no longer hold.
Why this matters: This is a practical problem for anyone whose data moves between Europe and the US, which covers almost every major tech platform people use daily. The EU-US data transfer deal was already fragile — Schrems has killed two previous versions. This ruling hands him a strong argument for a third strike. If the European Commission pulls the adequacy decision, companies lose their legal basis for routine transatlantic data flows overnight. That is not a regulatory footnote. It is a disruption to how most of the internet works.
Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · AI governance · General readers · Policy
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