A United States Supreme Court victory for Donald Trump is prompting Europe's most powerful privacy defenders to try to kill a data flow deal underpinning €1.7 trillion in transatlantic trade each year.
Privacy regulators and activists rushed into action after Monday's ruling that granted Trump the right to fire members of independent agencies. They're taking aim at the so-called Data Privacy Framework, a transatlantic deal that allows companies to easily send data from Europe to the U.S.
The challenges, if successful, would trigger massive upheaval in the technology sector — and come at a time of icy relations between Brussels and Washington on everything from access to AI technology to social media regulation and global chips supply chains. Trump has repeatedly lashed out at EU regulations and fines targeting U.S. Big Tech firms.