The US Supreme Court decided that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore – with major implications for EU-US 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.

  • shish_mish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    641·
    7 hours ago

    Watching The Man in the High castle hits very different now.
    People over here are seeing what is going on in the USA but
    they might still vote for Reform and then we are done. The rich will make sure that they control everything including
    every citizen.
    Palantir, Musk, Bezos,Thiel and all the other monsters will plunder
    what is left of the worlds resources and retreat to their many bunkers
    or Mars. They think AI will fix the earth and according to them millions will die in the process of them remaking the world into a Technocratic feudal system.And for that they want all the data till they know more
    about you than you do yourself.

    At least that’s what they have in their project 2025 and beyond as a plan.
    They want only the “right” people to survive. It makes horrifying reading, they think of empathy and kindness as big
    massive weakness,they want the sick,disabled ,lgbtq and others to die as thy are seen as a burden on their system. Sorry for the rant but I am old and these people scare me.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
    45·
    8 hours ago

    One big lie has been debunked.

    Whether or not that means there will be more truth, well, time will tell.

    • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      7 hours ago

      There will never be more truth while these crazy idiots are in charge. Take the reflecting pool as example, everyone saw it being painted and they were proudly yammering about it being painted. The paint failed because they’re morons and suddenly it was terrorists cutting a 300 foot liner with a box cutter.

    • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      212·
      7 hours ago

      it never was… like most American things, it was always just marketing

      • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        313·
        5 hours ago

        Oh? Tell me about your country then.

        There have always been issues. There was a lot of precursor to this. But there has never been anything this bad.

        America was a beacon for the world, despite our violations and blemishes. Relative to the rest of history, we were leading the world ina better direction,.

        Nixon was out after Watergate. You don’t have to bribe our doctors or our cops during traffic stops. While we’re having issues with LGBTQ, we were a leader in treating people with respect for a few decades. That’s our norm.

        This is Idiocracy.

        • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
          91·
          3 hours ago

          Woah guys, we got someone who fell hard for the propaganda.

          The US spread fascism around the world in the form of the most destructive industry man ever invented the military industrial complex. The US has only been without conflict for a very short time in all its history.

          We have committed and assisted in multiple genocides and our destruction to the environment through our proliferation of polluting technology has poisoned every single human on the planet. By my estimates we have lost close to a billion people from pollution in the last 50 years.

          While I will admit the current administration of outright thieves is shocking, this type of back room dealing had always been a part of our extremely corrupt nation.

          Most of what you praise is literally propaganda and very little can be attributed to reality. Sure the US has had more decorum in the past, but that ain’t saying much.

        • Gregers@lemmy.worldEnglish
          121·
          4 hours ago

          Treating people with respect, but also letting people die because they can’t afford medicine or health care. Intelligence services selling cocaine and drugging their own citizens with LSD. Privatized prisons. Invading countries for their oil. Overthrowing democratically elected governments and fucking up regions all over the world.

          Yeah sure

          • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
            21·
            3 hours ago

            not haveing universal healthcare while bad is nothing like the crazyness of trump. As for the rest. Pia Vesta. Operation Condor. Private prisons showed up during reagan and is part of the downward spiral that got us to current and same with invading oil rich countries. Proxy shenanigans are also very prevelant outside of the us. So what im saying is the things you list in some cases are just common in the world not just the us and in other case were fought against and is part of what lead to trump. This is different mainly because the constitution is just being flaughted outright rather than being chipped at and scotus is not defending the constitution and half of congress is derelict in their duty to impeach him for flagrantly breaking the laws of the nation.

            • Gregers@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              37 minutes ago

              Obviously nothing comes close to what is happening in the US right now, and I do hope it’s not to late to turn things around.

  • Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
    11·
    6 hours ago

    With the CLOUD, FISA and PATRIOCT acts, any privacy was already inexistant on USA soil, so at least if the commission can pull its head out of its ass, it coald be better.