Could Trump Play The Trump Card Against The Data Protection Framework?

The Trump administration's actions have had far-reaching consequences across various domains, including immigration, the conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine, border control, taxes, and tariffs. While data protection has largely remained unaffected until now, recent developments suggest that data privacy may soon be impacted, raising concerns about the future of the Data Protection Framework ("DPF") that safeguards data transfers from the EEA to the US, and by its Extension from the UK to the US (for more information see our articles here and here).

The current position of the Data Protection Framework

Under the EU's General Data Protection Framework ("GDPR"), transfers of personal data to a third country like the US are generally prohibited, because the third country cannot provide the same level of protection for personal data processed in that jurisdiction.