I think they only read the part about the UK? Maybe?

However, the article still kinda vague to me, cause I got the same email, and I'm mos def in the US.

I'm so deeply inside the US that I have no idea how to check where google stores my data, and I don't really care cause the US has some bigger orange fish to fry. And pie to bake. Ajit Pie!!

Have you VPN'd into the UK or had activity there recently?

It says on your website that you worked in London.

This email is likely a courtesy notification because you had activity in the UK, a UK billing address, or something that put you there, meaning if you have activity there again, the controller will be different.

What this email does not mean is that your Italy based activity is going to a different controller, so how exactly is this illegal?

Even the article says I lived in UK/London, it's not a secret, but remains the fact I'm not a UK citizen :/ If US or EU would be the same, why mentioning brexit?

* You're receiving the email because you've had enough activity in UK to warrant a notification.

* Read literally, the email only talks about the UK, not Italy.

* If you go to the UK again, then your activity in the UK will be on a nom-GDPR handler.

There is nothing illegal here, and just because you're sitting in Italy at this moment doesn't mean Google is moving Italian activity handlers. The email is a notification about Uk only.