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Well, IANAL, but they say they are based on Ireland (in Amazon's EC2 servers), so Irish law (which is a subset of EU law) applies to their servers there. I'm n
by rmc 14y ago
Well, IANAL, but they say they are based on Ireland (in Amazon's EC2 servers), so Irish law (which is a subset of EU law) applies to their servers there.
I'm not sure what they keep meaning by "not safe harbour compliant", since the law applies all the time to all people in Ireland....
- brazzy 14y ago> Irish law (which is a subset of EU law) Shouldn't that be "superset"?
- rmc 14y agoahem yes. :)
- friism 14y agoIANAL either, but note that Heroku is an American company and that probably has implications due to the PATRIOT act. Check out what a Microsoft exec had to say about this: "Microsoft cannot provide those guarantees. Neither can any other company" - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patriot-act-can-access-eu-based-cloud-data/11225 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patri...