Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe
by stickfigure on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:34PM
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The social graph itself is PII. BobUS and SallyEU are friends. Where can that data reside?
Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe
by zamalek on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:37PM
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In a blind index, in each region: https://medium.com/@joshuakelly/blind-indexes-in-3-minutes-m...
Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe
by tedivm on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:42PM
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The problem is that US law says that the US can tell a US company to share data with US Intelligence Agencies even if that data exists in a subsidiary outside of the US.
That's why simply storing EU data in the EU isn't enough when there's a US company involved. Our surveillance state isn't just horrible for privacy, it's also bad for business.
I certainly have not spent any time to look into the actual legislation - so don't take this as "everything would be fine" - but I feel a solution could be found that governments would be ok with if FB would be willing to spend the engineering effort.