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6 Months of "agreement in principle", EU-US agreement in fact still missing

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Data Transfers Half a year of political announcements, but no agreement on EU-US data transfers. On 25 March 2022, in the wake of the war on Ukraine, US-President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced an "agreement in principle" on EU-US data transfers, despite two Court of Justice (CJEU) rulings striking down the previous "Safe Harbor" and "Privacy Shield" agreements. Video of the announcement of 25 May 2022 Press Release by the European Commission of 25 May 2022 Political agreement hits legal reality. Despite various promises in the original announcement, colorful European fact sheets (PDF) and promises in US black and white fact sheets (link), no further tangible result was published in the past six months. Instead, rumors are being spread that the US will in fact not provide the hailed "Data Protection Review Court", but at best some form of executive tribunal, similar to previous Privacy Shield Ombudsperson, already rejected by the CJEU. Equall

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