Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority

Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by mnw21cam on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:14AM (#30287229)

Microsoft has seen this one - they have a subsidiary in the EU that holds the EU data. Yes, the US-based parent company is legally bound to provide the data at the request of the US gov agencies. However, the only way that they can get hold of that data is to ask the EU subsidiary nicely. The EU subsidiary is legally bound to not hand that data over.

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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by neuronflux on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:29AM (#30288559)

Do you know if Microsoft setup this EU shell after the whole thing with the FBI wanting emails stored in Ireland?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat... (2016) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act (2018).

If so, it might end up in court again, and we'll have to see how that precedent gets set out. Will be curious to see how this plays out.

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Re:Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data p... by mnw21cam on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:17PM (#30289371)

I think it was set up beforehand. Also, I think nobody really wanted to go as far as setting any precedents, in case they ended up being precedents that they didn't want.

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