US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers

The US Supreme Court's Trump v. Slaughter decision ruled that the FTC cannot be independent, undermining the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which relied on the FTC's independence 259 times to meet EU constitutional requirements for data protection oversight. This decision collapses the legal foundation of the current EU-US data transfer agreement, and privacy advocates are calling on the European Commission to withdraw its adequacy decision allowing free data flows between the regions. The ruling follows the "unitary executive theory," which asserts that the US President must have power over all executive agencies, conflicting with EU treaty law requirements for independent data protection authorities.