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The New York Times reports that Trump is making the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board de facto inoperable. This punches the first major hole in EU-US data transfers agreement (TADPF).

Using US Cloud providers could quickly violate the GDPR (even in the European Commission's view).

noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illeg

noyb.euUS Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data DealTrump paralysed the "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" (PCLOB), a key element of the EU-US data transfer deal that allows EU-US data flows.
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@noybeu

I can't help thinking that all previous data transfer agreements have been far-fetched anyway and just a legal contortion of political will.

Perhaps we should thank Trump that the assessment is now much easier.

On the other hand, the governments, lobbyists, parties, companies, private individuals, ... would also sign any explicit consent, even if it had the wording ‘Yes, I want Europe to become a digital colony. I am happy to give data, money, knowledge and power to US corporations.’

I am curious to see which path Europe will choose.