US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers

2026-06-30 11:42 UTC

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.

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@fodor@lemmy.zip 2026-07-01 03:57

The title is wrong. SCOTUS didn’t make anything happen … the question is what EU regulators will do, and my guess is they won’t do a damn thing. But you never know!

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@DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 2026-06-30 12:35

Welcome to the Reich. The Land of the Free is no more.

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@shish_mish@lemmy.world 2026-06-30 13:02

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.

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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-07-01 05:25

Not sure whether this is an oversight or an intentional breach of the treaty. Hard to tell when one side acts in bad faith.

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@NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2026-07-01 05:26

Shits just getting started. This is just going to be one of many dominoes from this ruling to the ultimate demise of the USA, even if they do get rid of Trump. This + Citizens United = game over.

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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-07-01 05:36

trump wants palantir to handle all the data, so they cant profile “dissidents against right wing governments”

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@minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-30 22:36

Just one more reason for Europe to abandon American tech.

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@kreskin@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 03:39

this may delay the launch of windows 12 by a few days, possibly a week.

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@DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 03:47

Pretty sure it’ll make no difference. The agreements were already constantly being broken, and the EU only occassionally bothered doing anything about it. With the current European Comission being made up entirely of American assets, I suspect we’ll see no action on this whatsoever.

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@nevyn@slrpnk.net 2026-07-02 04:13

No data should be exchanged with the US, unless memes taking the piss out of the US are considered data, then yes sure, lots.

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@DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 06:34

Wow, a news site that actually links primary sources like the SCOTUS decusion. 10/10 Absolute amaze!

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@garbage_world@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 06:50

It’s European fault for relaying on a single thing

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@Fedditor385@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 06:57

Please stop calling seflhosting “digital sovereignty”. It’s just a marketing buzzword, but basically there is nothing there except “I will host it myself”.

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