Trump vs. EU-US Data Privacy Framework?

News about Trump's inauguration and the first laws he has enacted are currently piling up. In addition to many other serious and worrying consequences for the USA, these could also have a significant impact on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and therefore also have a major impact on European companies.

As theNew York Times reported on January 22, three members of the five-person Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" (an agency that is supposed to be a watchdog and protect Americans from abuse by surveillance agencies) received letters this week asking them to resign by Thursday or prepare to be fired.

It is not yet clear whether Trump plans to appoint new members or leave these positions vacant. The latter would mean that the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board would effectively be shut down. This could be a piece of the puzzle that could cause the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the adequacy decision for data transfers to the USA, to crumble.