EU Commission to study US court's Slaughter ruling for impact on data transfer deal
By Matthew Newman ( August 4, 2026, 16:13 GMT | Insight) -- The European Commission said Tuesday it will continue to "carefully analyze" any implications of the US Supreme Court's decision giving the US president the authority to fire an independent US agency commissioner without cause on the US-EU data transfer agreement. The ruling has raised questions about the EU-US Data Privacy Framework because the commission's adequacy decision relied on the FTC's independence as a key element of the framework's commercial privacy enforcement system.The European Commission said Tuesday it will continue to "carefully analyze" any implications of the US Supreme Court's decision giving the US president the authority to fire an independent US agency commissioner without cause on the US-EU data transfer agreement....
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