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This only applies if you have EU users submitting data to EU servers and then you want to move that data to another jurisdiction, namely the US. If your user i
by oliwarner 11y ago
This only applies if you have EU users submitting data to EU servers and then you want to move that data to another jurisdiction, namely the US.
If your user is submitting their own personal information to servers outside the EU, that's their lookout. That's what seems to apply to you. Carry on. Nothing to see here.
But if they're submitting to one of your nodes within the EU, they can consider that the data will continue to benefit from the protections being in the EU affords it. Moving it to the US without their permission does not abide the EU protections.
- rntz 11y agoSo wait - if Facebook, Google, etc. just made sure that every time an EU user submitted personal data, it was routed to US servers rather than EU ones, they would not be in violation of EU privacy law? What if they then send that data to the EU servers? Then (from the company's perspective) I've accomplished the same ends, at a cost to the user (latency), and gone from illegal to legal. That seems pretty ridiculous.
- kentonv 11y agoThat's not what my lawyer says. Our servers are only in the US and we were instructed that if we were to accept European customers we needed to go through the Safe Harbor process.