Rob rambles about Trump v Slaughter from a European perspective

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 briefing, Rob Bateman of Privacy Partnership explains what has happened on the American side and what it means for anyone moving personal data across the Atlantic.

Covered in this episode

A timeline from the adequacy decision in 2023 to the Supreme Court's ruling and noyb's demand for repeal
 The US machinery behind the DPF: Executive Order 14086, the FTC, the PCLOB and the Data Protection Review Court
 What the Supreme Court actually decided, explained without assuming any US constitutional law
 The four routes by which the adequacy decision could be invalidated, and their very different timescales
 Whether the ruling's logic spreads to the DPRC, and why that question matters more than the DPF headline
 The two scenarios for SCCs, including why standard contractual clauses could be a stronger fallback than they were after Schrems II

The DPF remains in force and transfers under it remain lawful today. Nothing in this episode is legal advice for your specific situation.