"The independence of all the US regulators who uphold EU-US data transfers is now in doubt, but the Commission is acting as if nothing has changed.
The Trump administration is considering abandoning the US side of the EU-US Data Protection Framework (DPF), also known as TDPF (Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework). It is attacking the judiciary and "so-called" independent agencies in the US government; and has pushed Democrats out of at least three of the five such institutions that ensure US compliance with the DPF.
“The zone is flooded,” a person speaking on condition of anonymity told Euractiv, referring to an infamous PBS interview in which former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon said that when too much is happening at once, the public can only keep up with a fraction of it.
“While previous agreements were disputed over one or two points, now there’s like a hundred,” the person said."
https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/deafening-commission-silence-with-no-credible-eu-us-data-oversight-left/
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