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I don’t think this is correct. EU is pretty strong in favour of data localisation, UK is not. Moving customers to California doesn’t mean they are no longer und
by Fl8ixIDN 6y ago
I don’t think this is correct. EU is pretty strong in favour of data localisation, UK is not. Moving customers to California doesn’t mean they are no longer under UK privacy rules, which of course are identical to EU privacy rules (for the foreseeable future, could change of course).
- avianlyric 6y agoWhile I agree with the theory of what your saying, I'm not so sure it matches the reality. If it did, then why is Facebook moving the data? There would be no benefit. Also it's currently not clear that it's actually legal to move EU citizen data to the US, because the EU doesn't thing the US has strong enough privacy protections. I know that EU citizen data is in the US, and people keep coming up with clever legal structures to make it legal. But those structures keep getting ruled illegal by EU courts.
- rock_hard 6y agoBecause they don't own a datacenter in the UK and it probably doesn't make sense to open one for a country that small So the next best option is to move it to the US based data centers
- M2Ys4U 6y agoIt's not about localisation of data, it's about localisation of control of those data.