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Actually the European courts struck down Privacy Shield. So any company transferring data to the US is doing it illegally. Plenty of active lawsuits against goo

Actually the European courts struck down Privacy Shield. So any company transferring data to the US is doing it illegally. Plenty of active lawsuits against google. But as much as HN likes to bash google, people here are pretty submissive when one is asking for advice on legal options against these companies. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53418898 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53418898

ntrz 5y ago
As far as I know it's still possible to transfer data from the EU to the US under the GDPR if the companies involved have signed a ``standard contractual clause''[0] (the article says this was also a target of the Privacy Shield suit but the courts chose to continue to allow it). [0] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractual-clauses-scc_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/inte...
- johncolanduoni 5y ago
  Right, which Google[1], Amazon[2], and Microsoft[3] even offer to third parties on their cloud platforms. That ruling was mostly just a quibbling about the legal particulars, it didn’t change anything on the ground. [1]: https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/10042247?hl=en https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/10042247?hl=en [2]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/customer-update-aws-and-the-eu-us-privacy-shield/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/customer-update-aws-an... [3]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offering-eu-model-clauses https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offer...
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tristor 5y ago
> people here are pretty submissive when one is asking for advice on legal options against these companies. I think to be fair to the HN community on this topic, most of us are not lawyers and shouldn't be providing legal advice. And maybe more importantly, at least in the US, the most rational advice starts with step one being "have at least $500M in a legal fund", which precludes most people from being able to effectively execute a suit against Google.

ntrz 5y ago

As far as I know it's still possible to transfer data from the EU to the US under the GDPR if the companies involved have signed a ``standard contractual clause''[0] (the article says this was also a target of the Privacy Shield suit but the courts chose to continue to allow it). [0] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractual-clauses-scc_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/inte...

johncolanduoni 5y ago
Right, which Google[1], Amazon[2], and Microsoft[3] even offer to third parties on their cloud platforms. That ruling was mostly just a quibbling about the legal particulars, it didn’t change anything on the ground. [1]: https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/10042247?hl=en https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/10042247?hl=en [2]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/customer-update-aws-and-the-eu-us-privacy-shield/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/customer-update-aws-an... [3]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offering-eu-model-clauses https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offer...

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tristor 5y ago

> people here are pretty submissive when one is asking for advice on legal options against these companies. I think to be fair to the HN community on this topic, most of us are not lawyers and shouldn't be providing legal advice. And maybe more importantly, at least in the US, the most rational advice starts with step one being "have at least $500M in a legal fund", which precludes most people from being able to effectively execute a suit against Google.