Re:Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads
by vasco on Friday February 18, 2022 @04:11PM
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I wonder if nobody in the EU regulatory bodies read what Snowden shared. The fact that requests go to US based datacenters has no impact on US's ability to spy on foreign citizens. They latch on to fiber cables everywhere and slurp up all the data they can. What EU should be doing is telling US to reel in their agencies or else all US tech companies get taxed out of the wazoo for operating in the EU. But no, instead all European citizens and businesses have to suffer through these braindead restrictions in how buttons are placed or what popups are needed as if they have any impact on privacy whatsoever.
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Re:Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads
by smooc on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:28PM
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This is exactly what the Schrems I/II rulings encapsulated: the Privacy Shield agreement was ruled invalid as any guarantees made on the privacy of European Citizens data transferred to the US were deemed to be fake. This has put a lot of cloud migrations on hold particularly for companies that are dealing with sensitive data, like banks and health care, but also retailers.
So it is approached from the consuming end for better or worse.
Re:Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads
by PoignardAzur on Saturday February 19, 2022 @06:34AM
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Uh, there's also increasingly broad mandates that all sensitive data of european citizens should be located in european-based datacenters managed by european companies with no legal liability to the US.
Acting like the EU isn't reacting to american spying is frankly just ignorance of the situation.