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So USA's CLOUD Act doesn't apply if EU says so?

• greycol 5y ago
  It does apply in the EU and that's the point, if a US company can't engineer a legal or technical work around then they can't operate in the EU without breaking either US or EU laws. If the US believes that it's in a strong enough position that these companies can remain competitive while ignoring either US or EU law (and dodging enforcement) then it's welcome to not make amendments to the CLOUD Act. Otherwise it can have US companies lose market share(or suffer EU enforcement actions) or employ diplomatic lines to neuter or work around the law. You can of course note that the same issue will arise going the other way (EU company operating in the US) but the cost for the EU is obviously judged to be less than what's gained by protecting their citizens (or that it's at least a good drum to beat to trade for other considerations from the US).