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US companies literally cannot abide by EU laws, because they are subject to US laws, which conflict with EU laws. This is what all these European judgements are
by pembrook 2y ago
US companies literally cannot abide by EU laws, because they are subject to US laws, which conflict with EU laws. This is what all these European judgements are disagreeing with.
The companies are not at fault here. The governments are at fault for dropping the ball on coming to an agreement. We’re on like the 5th round of this. Compliance is impossible.
Until the two governments fix this, US companies cannot operate in the EU without being at risk for pilfering from EU government.
- snowpid 2y agoThe action by Uber was complettly avoidable.
- j_maffe 2y agoCouldn't they have kept the data stored in the EU? What US law prevents that?
- Y_Y 2y agoIn fact were talking about a Dutch company, Uber BV. If it can't abide by EU law then it shouldn't exist! And does US law really prevent them from handling EU customer data in a compliant way? Could you give a specific example?
- acedTrex 2y agoYou could argue that the CLOUD act is in direct conflict with European data laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act However, it does not prevent data at rest being stored in the EU. Only that if requested the american company has to exfiltrate it to the states.
- Y_Y 2y agoThanks, it seems like indeed the US government could request that an EU subsidiary of a US entity provide data on an EU subject. This request could be lawful under US law but not EU and hence you'd have a conflict. https://www.edps.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publication/19-07-10_edpb_edps_cloudact_annex_en.pdf https://www.edps.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publication/1...