The European Union General Court (EGC) has rejected a challenge to the US-EU Data Privacy Framework (DPF) allowing data to continue flowing across the pond, but the challenges are unlikely to stop there.

The EGC published its decision [PDF] today dismissing the annulment action brought by French lawmaker Philippe Latombe in 2023 a few months after the rule went into effect in July of that year.

For those who don't recall the specifics of the EU-US DPF, it was the third iteration of an attempt to standardize rules for transmitting data from European companies to American ones (and vice versa) by establishing rules to guarantee that Europeans had rights to their data transferred to the US. The first two attempts at such a framework, Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield, were thrown out after pri

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