Re:Google Chromebook outlawed in Danish public schools
by FateOfNations on Monday July 18, 2022 @11:53PM
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My understanding is that this isn't about "privacy" in the "evil corporation selling my data" sense, but specifically about US-based companies' obligation comply with search warrants for data that they have access to. An "insanely good privacy law" isn't going to fix it.
The thing that set it off was "a 2013 drug trafficking investigation, during which the FBI issued an [Stored Communications Act] warrant for emails that a U.S. citizen had stored on one of Microsoft's remote servers in Ireland, which Microsoft refused to provide." The US promptly changed the law to require US companies comply with search warrants, regardless of where the data is located. European Data Regulators have a big problem with this.
Re:Google Chromebook outlawed in Danish public schools
by Gwypaas on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:32PM
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That is already the case. There is a list of approved third countries where transfer of data is acceptable since they provide guarantees for that data in line with GDPR.
https://www.imy.se/en/organisations/data-protection/this-app...
There is no winning scenario by continuing to use foreign products that are subjugated by foreign laws, so might as well try to get something done on the inside. That or declare privacy dead already and move to the next thing to lose control over.