Court of Justice of the EU
#EUGeneralCourt dismisses the action seeking annulment of the new framework for transferring #PersonalData between the #EU and the #US 👉 https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_7052/
Sep 3, 2025 at 7:52amWeb
Show threadWuWeiSep 3, 2025

"In the present case, it is apparent from the file that, under
US law, signals intelligence activities carried out by US intelligence agencies are subject to ex post judicial oversight
by the DPRC. "

Of course, US agencies are well know to fully act under judical oversight and never overreach.
EU personal data will be surely safe in the US
🤮

Show threadAngela ScholderSep 3, 2025
@Curia So the judges have missed the fact that Flumf scrapped the Executive order, basically turning the agreement back to the same crap as we had twice before.....
Show threadBart Smit / ⲁⲗⲍⲓⲙⲟⲛSep 3, 2025
@AngelaScholder @Curia That was later. The court argues that *at the time of the decision* it was all fine and dandy. (They also remarked that the EC may reconsider the decision in the light of changing circumstances...)
Show threadAngela ScholderSep 3, 2025
@alzimon Was that decision not just recently given?
Did I miss an old date?
Show threadBart Smit / ⲁⲗⲍⲓⲙⲟⲛSep 3, 2025
@AngelaScholder In 2023 Latombe sought annulment of EC's adequacy decision for the EU-US DPF earlier that year and THAT is what the ruling was about. Trump's dismantling of the PCLOB was in January 2025. Still very disappointing of course.
Show threadFlorian Zumkeller-QuastSep 3, 2025
@AngelaScholder @Curia Flumf?
Show threadAngela ScholderSep 3, 2025
@branleb The orange Cheeto, Comrade Krashnov.....
Show threadFlorian Zumkeller-QuastSep 3, 2025
@AngelaScholder and how exactly did he do that?
Do you mean by the usual ignorance for the law or did he actually sign something into law that formally scrapped EO 14086 (or parts of it)? I could find anything with regard to the regard and the EUGC did not rule on the former.
Show threadAngela ScholderSep 3, 2025

@branleb He basicalle dissolved the committee that was supposed to keep an eye on it and enforce the ruling by sacking the democrats in it.

So, though on paper everything is fine, practically any oversight is gone.

Show threadClemens ZaunerSep 3, 2025

@AngelaScholder
Well, the judges can only rule on the complaint itself. The complaint is against the 2023 - stuff.

They say it was fine and dandy *then*.

Show threadArthur van der HargSep 3, 2025

@Curia Interesting … if I read this correctly, then the mere fact that it is theoretically possible for a nominally independent body to examine the collection of personal data *after it has already been gathered and processed* and in principle conclude that that shouldn’t have been done, is equivalent to personal data protection in the EU?

I thought that we pretended to have privacy protection over here?

Show threadJan PenfratSep 3, 2025

IANAL but clearly something's off with today's #ECJ decision 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼 confirming the legality of the #EU-#US data transfer agreement #DPF. Based on the PR:

1. The Court explicitly based its judgement on an outdated reality: that of 2023 (the moment of complaint), when the US hadn't abolished the Rule of Law quite yet.

2. The Court therefore is able to put blind trust into a #DPRC that is subordinate to a complete nutcase of a Trumpist Attorney-General who disregards the #RuleOfLaw and #HumanRights.

Show threadCybermatronSep 3, 2025
@ilumium That was my thinking. I mean, the words “at the time of the adoption of the contested decision” and the observation that the Commission is required to “monitor continuously the application of the legal framework” is a pretty big hint “mit dem Zaunpfahl”, that the Commission should do just that. But given how politicised the Commission has historically been in this regard, there’s also an overwhelming likelihood that it won’t go there unless forced to do so by the Court.
Show threadCybermatronSep 3, 2025
@ilumium So, at the very least, this will buy US Big Tech (and a by now fascist US government) few more years of nearly uninhibited access to our data, while a new legal challenge is mounted. I feel for everyone in EU civil society who is now faced with doing that again. This really is the stupidest timeline.
Show threadWalter van HolstSep 3, 2025
@TheCybermatron @ilumium Yes, it is also my reading that it is as much a shot across the bow of the European Commission while having opened up a much quicker avenue for killing the framework than was previously thought available as a loss for Latombe.