EDRi calls for the immediate reassessment of US adequacy

Following the US Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v Slaughter, European Digital Rights (EDRi), along with 36 other civil society organisations and academics, have published an open letter to European Commissioner McGrath requesting an immediate reassessment of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF).

The ruling, which allows the US president to remove leaders of independent agencies at will, directly undermines key independent supervisory safeguards that the Commission relied upon for its 2023 adequacy decision. EDRi notes, however, that under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Commission must continuously review whether third countries maintain equivalent levels of data protection, particularly when legal or institutional developments change.

EDRi is calling on the Commission to launch a public reassessment, consult independent experts, and publish its legal findings on the judgment's implications. They argue that ignoring these US constitutional changes undermines the credibility of the GDPR, stressing that the same standards must apply to all countries when fundamental safeguards are compromised.

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