Yesterday the US Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not independent anymore. In fact no US agency is independent anymore. This is huge.
The FTC being independent is the entire basis for (and the only reason) why Europeans are allowed to send personal data from the EU to the USA.
Without this basis, Europeans aren't allowed to send any personal data from the EU to the USA. To give the maybe most concrete example, Europeans will be forbidden to use Google Analytics once this comes into effect.
Did Trump's cronies basically self-destruct US tech dominance over Europe? In their race to authoritarianism, they declared every US law unconstitutional that allows any US agency any independence from Trump. But without independence from Trump, the EU treaty collapses that allows Europeans to send personal data to the USA.
This means, as Europeans, you aren't allowed to use Google Analytics anymore. No more Google Firebase, no more Braze, no more Sentry. NO MORE PALANTIR.
noyb has sent a formal letter to the European Commission today, asking the Commission to take the appropriate steps to repeal the EU-US data deal in an orderly way.
noyb will also file a lawsuit in the coming weeks, aiming to allow the CJEU to annul the current deal. However, such a lawsuit typically takes 2-3 years until a final decision is reached.
If your employer uses Google Analytics, they better start migrating to a self-hosted solution like Matomo or Plausible. Or they will face hefty fines.
Do I understand this correctly? This would be the biggest self-own and favor the USA could have done us. This seems too good to become reality?!
https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers
