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> “In the worst case scenario, this could mean that a small tech start up in Germany would no longer be able to use a US-based cloud provider. A Spanish product
by rognjen 5y ago
> “In the worst case scenario, this could mean that a small tech start up in Germany would no longer be able to use a US-based cloud provider. A Spanish product development company could no longer be able to run an operation across multiple time zones.”
> “A French retailer may find they can no longer maintain a call centre in Morocco,” Clegg stressed.
All three examples are false.
US-based cloud providers have servers in the EU.
Time zones are settings on the server, so not sure how that's even related. The EU itself has three timezones, I believe.
Where the person is doesn't matter as long as the data they're accessing is on an EU server.
- petters 5y agoI think it matters, at least a little? In Sweden many are worried about the cloud act and the government often requires its contractors to but use e.g. aws https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act