House of Cards: How a US ruling could shatter transatlantic data flow
Disaster foretold for EU data protection?
Limits of immediate impact
U-turn at the Supreme Court
A political and legal house of cards is threatening to collapse. With its decision in the case “Trump vs. Slaughter,” the conservative majority of judges on the US Supreme Court has declared the independence of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unconstitutional. What looks like a purely domestic political debate about the US President's powers turns out, upon closer inspection, to be an explosive device for the European digital economy. For the supposed independence of the FTC has long been the legal foundation upon which data traffic between the EU and the USA rested.
