Privacy shield very much matters where your servers are. EU cracking down hard on extra territorial transfers in the past year with more to come. Also, lots of

Privacy shield very much matters where your servers are. EU cracking down hard on extra territorial transfers in the past year with more to come. Also, lots of companies assert GDPR compliance via magical thinking. They most often are wholly wrong. Shopify can say whatever they want, but there’s no certification body. Source: I’m the person who evaluates and builds compliance systems for a range of services you almost definitely use.