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US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal
Trump 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.
The US, on the other hand, has very strong mass surveillance laws(e.g. FISA702 or EO 12.333), that allow the US government to access any data stored with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google and any other US Big Tech firm without probable cause or individual judicial approval. The fact that the US president is now attempting to simply remove people, calls into question if the idea of (allegedly) "independent" executive bodies was even factually arguable from the get go. Max Schrems: " I can hardly imagine that a Biden Executive Order that was forced on the US by the EU and that regulates US espionage abroad could survive Trump's 'America First' logic.
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