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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by taubek on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:31AM (#30161625)
What would happen if Google would decide to host all of EU related data in EU? They would be 100% compliant?
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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by holri on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:42AM (#30161701)
No, because Google hast to comply with US law and has to transfer data to US officials.
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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by dbbk on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:50AM (#30161761)
Not if it's run through a European subsidiary surely
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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by ToruiDev on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @08:50AM (#30162314)
They still do since they're a subsidiary/related.

Microsoft tried to get around that by not hosting in the EU but having a european trustee do it for them.

That got us the CLOUD act

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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by floatingatoll on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:08AM (#30164413)
The rulings this past week specifically contradict this. Subsidiaries of US corporations are subject to illegal-under-GDPR data collection requests by US authorities, just as much as any other US corporation, as the subsidiary has no legal protections under US law from GDPR-illegal requests by its parent.
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Re:Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Ba... by Deukhoofd on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:44AM (#30161717)
It'd only be compliant if they would then also not allow US intelligence agencies to access the data at will. That would however break US law, specifically section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
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