Oh boy… This is not good:
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. Max Schrems: “Given that there are no independent authorities in the US anymore, we call on the European Commission to orderly withdraw the adequacy decision on the US.”
Way to go, #SCOTUS, you've just #fucked over the handling of personal data between the US and EU.
https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers
No, this gets it backwards.
FTC was never independent. It may have had some trappings of independence, and we may have elected a few (or a lot of) crappy legislators who don't understand legislating, but the FTC was always executive branch.
Other countries SHOULD have known that about the US governance structure as it's pretty fundamental.
It's like folks not understanding that the JCPOA and Paris Accord were agreements with the president and not the country and therefore subject to rescission by the next president.
The FTC was never independent in operation. Sounds like someone might finally tell the EU.
