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On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000, the EU has relied on the “independent” FTC as the enforcer of EU-US deals on personal data. According to EU treaty law, such oversight must be independent. In the current EU-US deal, the European Commission relies on the independent FTC 259 (!) times.

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[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No data should be exchanged with the US, unless memes taking the piss out of the US are considered data, then yes sure, lots.

I support this message

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wow, a news site that actually links primary sources like the SCOTUS decision. 10/10 Absolute amaze!

[–] Flaxseed@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

NOYB (non of your business) is great! Not so much a primary news site, but an Austrian NGO that focuses on data privacy in the EU. They have taken some of the biggest cases related to EU:US data transfers against the EU.

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah, that makes more sense. I was suspicious of a news site being so good. The search for good news source continues...

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Shits just getting started. This is just going to be one of many dominoes from this ruling to the ultimate demise of the USA, even if they do get rid of Trump.

This + Citizens United + President can't be charged for official acts = game over.

The presidency is no longer trust worthy, and now every US agency is no longer trust worthy.

FDA: The drug isn't safe

Trump: Approve it

FDA: The drug isn't safe

Trump: You're fired

FDA: The drug is the BEST DRUG WE'VE EVER SEEN!

Every single agency.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 days ago

Germany needed the world to fix.

Europe can not just let this happen.

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure it'll make no difference. The agreements were already constantly being broken, and the EU only occassionally bothered doing anything about it. With the current European Comission being made up entirely of American assets, I suspect we'll see no action on this whatsoever.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

Important read:

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days - "He used the constitution to shatter the constitution."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

https://archive.ph/AL7pv

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 76 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just one more reason for Europe to abandon American tech.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yes stop buying our shit holy fuck

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Jesus fucking Christ STOP

That would help.with so many things if it was abrupt

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Enjoying my EU hosted services, and looking forward to my next-gen cloud office software from the EU, and I'm already bypassing US retail brands for most of my electronics.

There was a time that saying "buy American" wasn't a curse or a threat.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

My eu hosted services pass through us servers. Every single one is like this. Probably because your countries are spying on Americans too, and you’re all in cahoots together.

The day that the regular people of Europe and America, realize our leaders are all mutually fucking us together and hopping over to an island to fuck kids while laughing at us will be a fucking great day.

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Citations needed for the first paragraph. Hard agree, for the second.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Cloudflare mate.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 133 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The joke of a "privacy framework" has now a excuse less.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 23 points 4 days ago

I wouldn't hold my breath that anything changes, though

[–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It's European fault for relaying on a single thing

[–] shish_mish@lemmy.world 106 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Watching The Man in the High castle hits very different now.
People over here are seeing what is going on in the USA but
they might still vote for Reform and then we are done. The rich will make sure that they control everything including
every citizen.
Palantir, Musk, Bezos,Thiel and all the other monsters will plunder
what is left of the worlds resources and retreat to their many bunkers
or Mars. They think AI will fix the earth and according to them millions will die in the process of them remaking the world into a Technocratic feudal system.And for that they want all the data till they know more
about you than you do yourself.

At least that's what they have in their project 2025 and beyond as a plan.
They want only the "right" people to survive. It makes horrifying reading, they think of empathy and kindness as big
massive weakness,they want the sick,disabled ,lgbtq and others to die as thy are seen as a burden on their system. Sorry for the rant but I am old and these people scare me.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Don't appologize. You aren't wrong. It needs to be said.

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If it's any comfort, none of them are getting to Mars.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, I would love it if they fucked off to Mars.

If they did, it sure would be a shame if their radio stopped working

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[–] Acid_Burn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Do you have any further reading material? It feels like we haven't gotten too far past the point of no return but I suppose once you pass that point, by definition you can't return. Are we really that close to Snowcrash?

[–] shish_mish@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

This is a good explanation of project 2025. It is a roadmap to the extreme right.
Women will lose their right to vote,getting contraceptives will be hard to come
by as they want women,white women to have as many babies as possible.
They want to institutionalize all homeless,disabled and mentally ill.Withing their circles the talk of mercy killings of these people. There is so much more craziness they want to enact and people need to organize and fight back. https://nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Project-2025-Full-Report.pdf

https://lofgren.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/lofgren.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Stop%20Project%202025%20Task%20Force's%20Project%202025%20Subject-by-Subject%20Breakdown_7.26.2024.docx-compressed.pdf

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Look up Curtis Yarvin and Dark Enlightenment. It’s why fElon wore a dark MAGA hat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

[–] triptrapper@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Doug Rushkoff's Survival of the Richest paints a really fascinating picture of the tech billionaire mindset. Rushkoff has been writing about tech for like 50 years so he's able to explain the evolution from creative tech anarchist to fascist sociopath. "They seem to think they can design a car fast enough to outrun its own exhaust."

[–] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 15 points 4 days ago

Search for "Thiel Dialogue Leaks" for more nightmare fuel to read

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 15 points 3 days ago

yeah its kinda surreal how this march to destruction is when your at the just trying to make it to retirement age (which looks like won't be around then anyway)

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 days ago

The title is wrong. SCOTUS didn't make anything happen ... the question is what EU regulators will do, and my guess is they won't do a damn thing. But you never know!

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 54 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One big lie has been debunked.

Whether or not that means there will be more truth, well, time will tell.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There will never be more truth while these crazy idiots are in charge. Take the reflecting pool as example, everyone saw it being painted and they were proudly yammering about it being painted. The paint failed because they're morons and suddenly it was terrorists cutting a 300 foot liner with a box cutter.

[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Welcome to the Reich. The Land of the Free is no more.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (28 children)

it never was… like most American things, it was always just marketing

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This may delay the launch of windows 12 by a few days, possibly a week. But everyone should remain calm, nothing will fundamentally change.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

SCC, BCR, PCLOB - would be nice if they explained the acronyms.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago

trump wants palantir to handle all the data, so they cant profile "dissidents against right wing governments"

[–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 15 points 4 days ago

With the CLOUD, FISA and PATRIOCT acts, any privacy was already inexistant on USA soil, so at least if the commission can pull its head out of its ass, it coald be better.

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