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Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe by Matthias247 on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:09PM (#30304871)
I assume the most interesting requirements are about data residency. And that probably 1) can be avoided by just making sure EU data is stored in the EU, US data in the US, and looking up a foreign region profile (which is rare) would need to a a pure API proxy request which is not allowed to store anything in the local region and probably has some kind of per-request authorization to do this.

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.

Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe by stickfigure on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:34PM (#30305248)
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 (#30305297)
Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe by tedivm on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:42PM (#30305374)
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.