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The EU Commission's 2023 adequacy decision leaned on the US FTC as an independent privacy enforcer, citing it 259 times. On 29 June the Supreme Court ruled the FTC is not independent of the President at all.
Max Schrems' group noyb says that collapses the legal ground under EU-US data transfers, and the only clean fix is a unanimous EU treaty change. A Schrems III case is already being drafted.
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Google handed police the robbery case in three escalating tranches: first 19 anonymous accounts within 150 meters of the bank, then nine, then the names behind three. One was Okello Chatrie, later sentenced to 12 years. The Court ruled that pulling location data this way triggers Fourth Amendment scrutiny.
But it declined to call geofencing itself unconstitutional, remanding the probable-cause question to the lower court. As one reader put it, the celebration is for a rubber stamp with a few extra steps.
