Regarding the last point, there is some indication that that is happening, given that Google's response (from the article) is: > Google has indicated that it p

Regarding the last point, there is some indication that that is happening, given that Google's response (from the article) is: > Google has indicated that it plans to fix the privacy concerns by August 2023 which means that they acknowledge that the current situation is insufficient. If the data was stored and processed only in Europe, they would likely say so. Although even that would not be sufficient, because > American authorities can access data stored in the European cloud (by American companies), due to the CLOUD act. So the privacy issues aren't that easy to solve, which might be why they expect it to take >1 year.