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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48844447

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.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    15·
    18 hours ago

    I have said repeatedly that that agreement was worthless and probably illegal anyway, because it’s based on US agencies respecting personal data, and USA has demonstrated multiple times that their agencies have very little respect for personal data.

    Therefore in principle it is illegal for any public institution in EU to store any personal data on any American owned server or cloud service.

    This agreement between EU and USA was merely a play to the gallery, to avoid a major political trade crisis between EU and USA.
    USA can still legally break all the rules by just saying the word terrorism. But they have many other ways they circumvent the regulation, for instance simply buying the information they need from scumbag companies that specialize in selling personal information, without needing a permission from a judge.

  • Arancello@aussie.zone
    9·
    20 hours ago

    Actually surprised it has taken this long to realise the usa agencies cannot be relied on any more for indet.