Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe
by barbazoo on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:50PM
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My understanding was that it's about where the data resides. That assumption may or may not be true. But if it is it's feasible for EU data to be stored in the EU and US users request that data from the EU server. Again, my understanding was that this would be a valid way to handle that data but I might be wrong.
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Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe
by endisneigh on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:54PM
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Your understanding is correct, but my point is that inherently if US people can access EU profiles inherently some EU data will be stored in the US.
It would then been trivial for someone to crawl EU pages and rebuild the corpus of data.
The only real solution is to firewall off regions and prevent those users from accessing anything other than their own.
This is already what some countries like China do, for instance