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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by pizzapill on Saturday January 07, 2017 @09:31AM (#13344287)
I'm from Germany I can see Linked In in the appstore. Since 2000 there are Safe Harbor laws in place that regulate how data can be stored in the US etc. altough their privacy standards don't match EU and especially German standards. My government was thinking about changing those contracts during the NSA scandals but AFAIK we're stuck in negotiations atm.

By the way those negotiations are a farce since our intelligence services will hand the data right over to the NSA anyways.

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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by robin_reala on Saturday January 07, 2017 @10:05AM (#13344429)
To be pedantic, Safe Harbour died in 2015. The replacement is the EU-US Privacy Shield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU-US_Privacy_Shield
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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by dane-pgp on Saturday January 07, 2017 @10:15AM (#13344480)
Indeed, and this "Privacy Shield" is already being challenged in European courts:

http://www.natlawreview.com/article/legal-challenge-to-eu-us...

The bigger question to be asked here is, with China demanding the removal of the NYT app, and Russia demanding the same for LinkedIn, how long before Trump orders Signal or Telegram to be removed?

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