Re:Meta is not threatening to leave Europe
by fmajid on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:15PM
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> Siloing off the EU facebook, with no contact with the US side
That's insufficient as the US CLOUD Act allows the US government to compel a US company to cough up the data even if it is hosted in the EU and subject to EU privacy laws.
The only workaround I could see is one where they would spin out Facebook EU as a legally independent non-US entity (giving shares in it to Meta shareholders) and federate that with FB US.
That's insufficient as the US CLOUD Act allows the US government to compel a US company to cough up the data even if it is hosted in the EU and subject to EU privacy laws.
The only workaround I could see is one where they would spin out Facebook EU as a legally independent non-US entity (giving shares in it to Meta shareholders) and federate that with FB US.