EU Court Preserves EU-US Data Privacy Framework

The EU General Court Gives Victory to Backers of Trans-Atlantic Data Flows Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • September 3, 2025

The European Union General Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by a French politician to annul the legal framework underpinning commercial data flows across the Atlantic, rejecting claims that a U.S. intelligence agency oversight body is not independent of the federal government.

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The ruling, which could be appealed, is a victory for American tech companies and the European and U.S. politicians who erected the framework to straddle potentially incompatible visions of digital privacy. A top European official in 2022 put the odds of the framework's survival in court as a seven or eight out of 10 (see: EU-US Data Privacy Framework in Activist's Crosshairs).

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