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Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe by axiosgunnar on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:40PM (#30304395)
> If a user in Florida tries to view a post by a user in Germany, doesn't the German user's data have to leave the EU?

> One option would be to serve this data directly from the European server.

What do you think happens with the data when you "serve it directly from the European server" to a user in Florida?

Exactly, it leaves the EU to go to Florida. ;-)

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Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe by Retric on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:47PM (#30304495)
People in the EU can explicitly share data with other people, they aren’t trying to take down the phone system.
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Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe by V__ on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:46PM (#30304486)
Yeah, to the user who requested it. Also, it's just the user's post, not the user's tracking/advertisement data.

So the only thing the US government could get, are the public facing posts/images which the user posted but nothing more. If the profile is private, even less. No messenger data (except when send to users in the US).

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Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe by erispoe on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:01PM (#30304757)
You can access EU-served data from all over the world, that's not a problem. What's in question is bringing data from EU residents outside of the EU to process it.
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