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"The larger U.S. companies may face a problem of perception that they have abetted U.S. government surveillance. They say, however, that they have broken no law
by chopin 11y ago
"The larger U.S. companies may face a problem of perception that they have abetted U.S. government surveillance. They say, however, that they have broken no laws."
They probably mean to not having broken US laws. However, if they complied to US government requests they have certainly broken laws of several EU countries (at least German ones) and as well broken the Safe Harbor agreement.
- mcv 11y agoThat's basically the core of it. If you want to do business in the EU, you have to obey EU laws. That they are incompatible with US laws is unfortunate, but from an EU perspective mostly an American problem.