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Even more ironic are the "digital safe harbour" provisions that cloud providers have been operating under, telling their clients that the law requires the US go
by swombat 13y ago
Even more ironic are the "digital safe harbour" provisions that cloud providers have been operating under, telling their clients that the law requires the US government to treat servers put under those provisions as not located in the US.
The irony being that since the servers are "not located in the US", they are even more easily targeted by the NSA since the NSA considers the rest of the world to be sub-humans without any rights.
- pilsetnieks 13y agoTo nitpick somewhat, at least in the case of the US-EU safe harbor protection, it meant that certified providers were to provide the same protection to European data as it would have in the EU under the relevant EU directive, it doesn't have anything to do with location of the servers. The certification, however, is a complete joke since companies can self-assess and register themselves as safe harbor compliant.
- Silhouette 13y agoThe certification, however, is a complete joke since companies can self-assess and register themselves as safe harbor compliant. And this creates a genuine difficulty for EU businesses, because it's no longer credible to claim that you thought a US business was compliant because of safe harbour arrangements. It may therefore not actually be legal under European laws to export personal data to those US businesses any more. If any European company did so, and as a result there were negative consequences for the subject of the data, that could lead to a nasty lawsuit for the company that did it, even if their actions would have been considered reasonably diligent because of safe harbour a few years ago.
- partoutok 13y agoInteresting thing to notice. Probably just a coincidence but if it was set in purpose it would be really genius evil.