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US Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal

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Data Transfers Since the Snowden disclosures we know that the US engages in mass surveillance of EU users by scooping up personal data from US Big Tech. The "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" (PCLOB) is the key US oversight authority for these laws. US media now reports, that Democratic members of the PCLOB got removed and their email accounts shut down. This brings the number of appointed Members below the threshold to have the PCLOB operate. The fact that the US President simply removed people from an (allegedly) independent authority, question the independence of all other executive redress bodies in the US.The European Union has relied on these US boards and tribunals to find that the US provides "adequate" protection of personal data. Relying on the PCLOB and other mechanisms, the EU Commission allows European personal data to flow freely to the US in the so-called "Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework" (TADPF). The PCLOB is the only relevant "oversight" element of the

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