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It might be good news for EU consumers. There's no technical reason for most vendors why customer data of EU customers has to be stored in US data centers.
by dx034 6y ago
It might be good news for EU consumers. There's no technical reason for most vendors why customer data of EU customers has to be stored in US data centers.
- geewee 6y agoAs a consumer I'm all for it - but as a vendor it does make things a little more difficult
- tdrp 6y agoI mean you can store EU users' data on an EU server but if any US users are allowed to communicate/look at EU users then obviously the data is going to travel across the ocean. Maybe I'm reading too much into what constitutes as "personal-data" but last I checked they had broadened that a lot. What happens if I view a EU user's linkedin profile from the US - isn't that all personal data? I hope there's at least an informed consent opt-out for this. If not, it's not super clear to me what the work-around is other than completely isolating the continents.
- simion314 6y ago>What happens if I view a EU user's linkedin profile from the US How can you see a private profile if it is private?
- woodhull 6y agoWe're already running separate US/EU points of presence on AWS. The trouble is that as a small business we can't afford to have two separate operations teams for the US instance vs. the EU instance. We're all based in North America too and it is not practical for us to hire a whole separate devops team for Europe. Our US based engineers could in theory be compelled to hand over the data stored at rest in the EU. They could also in theory see PII like names or email addresses in the course of administering the application on their laptops in the US which counts as data export, so would still need Privacy Shield or now SCC to allow engineers to do their everyday work keeping the product up and working.
- Dahoon 6y agoBut you do see that the problem is US law? Just a little privacy and this wouldn't have happened.