US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers

Data Transfers On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000, the EU has relied on the “independent” FTC as the enforcer of EU-US deals on personal data. According to EU treaty law, such oversight must be independent. In the current EU-US deal, the European Commission relies on the independent FTC 259 (!) times. Max Schrems: “Given that there are no independent authorities in the US anymore, we call on the European Commission to orderly withdraw the adequacy decision on the US.” Commission Implementing Decision EU 2023/1795 on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (EUR-Lex)US Supreme Court Decision in Trump v. Slaughternoyb letter to the European CommissionThe EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Since 1995, the EU generally prohibits the export of personal data to third countries in order to prevent EU privacy rules from being circumvented by simply sending data abroad. While there are exceptio