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The CLOUD Act allows the US government to compel a company to turn over their data even if that data is only stored in servers in a foreign country, with no due
by slackdog 4y ago
The CLOUD Act allows the US government to compel a company to turn over their data even if that data is only stored in servers in a foreign country, with no due process in that country. It requires American companies to violate EU law. The only way the EU can protect themselves from the CLOUD Act is to forbid any EU data be stored with any US company. Maybe you could accomplish that with a wholly EU subsidiary of an American company that is able to refuse and block requests for that data from their American parent corporation, but the CLOUD Act would still require the American company to hand over that data because the EU subsidiary is owned by the American company.
The only rational response from the EU is to ban EU companies from storing EU data with American companies.
- abigail95 4y agoPlease read the Schrems II case and the updated privacy protections being implemented literally right now.
- punnerud 4y agoHow can any protection be safe, as long as the US company have to comply? There is already a process now for Schrems III
- jeroenhd 4y agoThese protections aren't in place yet. They're not even finished at the moment. Until the time comes that the necessary protections are in place, one can assume American companies are off limits for the time being, as they have been for the past couple of years.