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Re:Austrian DSB: EU-US Data Transfers to Google Analytics Il... by nickpp on Thursday January 13, 2022 @10:50AM (#29922016)
Here in Europe we are running software tools and platforms written in the US, owned by USA-companies, on hardware designed in the US. And the people who created all that include lots of bright ex-Europeans.

What do you find hilarious about that?

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Re:Austrian DSB: EU-US Data Transfers to Google Analytics Il... by azernik on Sunday January 16, 2022 @12:06AM (#29953554)
And all those American tools would not work without East Asian (mostly Taiwanese and South Korean) hardware. Tech is global, and that doesn't mean every part of the industry is everywhere.
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Re:Austrian DSB: EU-US Data Transfers to Google Analytics Il... by anthk on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:38AM (#29922817)
Without some European hardware the US would do nothing.
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Re:Austrian DSB: EU-US Data Transfers to Google Analytics Il... by nickpp on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:55AM (#29923116)
True, we're not completely out of the loop. But let's not fool ourselves: we are far from running the show. And with an attitude like this we will be left watching how progress and innovation will keep coming from the US, driven by our own best and brightest emigrated there.
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Re:Austrian DSB: EU-US Data Transfers to Google Analytics Il... by pmlnr on Saturday January 15, 2022 @06:12AM (#29945521)
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Same for hardware. Europe is quite big on embedded, think of Siemens just as an example.

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