A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. Slaughter granting Donald Trump the power to fire members of independent agencies has intensified scrutiny of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which underpins €1.7 trillion in transatlantic trade each year. European privacy regulators and activists argue the decision weakens the independent oversight they say is essential to protect Europeans’ data from excessive U.S. surveillance. The European Data Protection Board has begun assessing the judgment’s potential implications for the framework, while Noyb and French lawmaker Philippe Latombe are pursuing separate legal challenges. If the framework is revoked, companies that rely on it, including major U.S. technology firms, could face major disruption to cross-border data transfers.