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Rob rambles about Trump v Slaughter from a European perspective
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A longer edition of the podcast because Rob gets unreasonably animated about EU-US data transfers.
On 29 June 2026 the US Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission's protection from presidential removal is unconstitutional, overruling ninety years of precedent on independent agencies.
The ruling says nothing about data protection, but the EU-US Data Privacy Framework is built on the premise that the FTC is an independent supervisory authority, and campaigners are already demanding that the European Commission repeal the adequacy decision.
In this 20-minute…
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