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It’s all about jurisdiction. If someone logs into an EU based server from the US, they are expected to abide by the laws of that EU country.
by rosndo 5y ago
It’s all about jurisdiction. If someone logs into an EU based server from the US, they are expected to abide by the laws of that EU country.
- vba616 5y agoIf you're doing business in/with the EU, you're probably subject to their jurisdiction. But I was talking about some kind of data protection laws. You know what Remote Desktop is? People have, at least in some places and at some times, acted as if keeping data in the EU, meant that you could not, like, copy files off a server in the EU to a computer in the US, but you could sit in the US and access a computer via Remote Desktop in the EU to do the same work. Sort of like handling toxic materials with waldos. But the more I thought about it, the less sense it made. It's like when people say you can view information on a website, but not copy it. Viewing it is copying it; that's how computers work.
- rosndo 5y agoI think you might misunderstand how courts work. It’s very much humans making decisions, not computers. > meant that you could not, like, copy files off a server in the EU to a computer in the US, but you could sit in the US and access a computer via Remote Desktop in the EU to do the same work. All of this still makes a huge difference when the cops show up with a search warrant.