Supreme Court FTC ruling sinks EU-US data deal, noyb says

The US Supreme Court's Trump v. Slaughter ruling, which strips the FTC of structural independence from presidential control, undermines the legal foundation of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which relies on FTC independence more than 250 times as proof of adequate US oversight. Privacy group noyb has called on the European Commission to withdraw the adequacy decision, potentially blocking transatlantic personal data flows for US companies. If you move personal data from Europe to the US, your legal right to do it just evaporated—the court has blown a hole in the FTC independence the Commission relied on to allow it. You have weeks to architect around this: store EU data in Europe, renegotiate contracts to add Standard Contractual Clauses as a backup, or face legal exposure when the Commission formally revokes the decision.