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[–] Treczoks 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People's Republic of China"

Now you Americans know how we Europeans feel when Google, Amazon and Facebook store our information on American servers. Hint: The protective wall between Chinese servers and their government are about as good as the one between American servers and their government - at least for non-US citizens. The last thin veil of privacy for Eurpeans has been ripped to shreds by Trump last week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

The last thin veil of privacy for Eurpeans has been ripped to shreds by Trump last week.

What did he do? I know Trump does not like the GDPR, but did he sign something affecting it last week?

[–] Treczoks 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

He killed the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Theoretically, no company is allowed to transfer data of European citizens to US-based servers anymore. Sadly, Ursula von der Leyen is lacking the balls to act on this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Thanks, I did not know. I think you are referring to this: https://www.freevacy.com/news/noyb/trumps-actions-to-dismantle-pclob-threatens-eu-us-data-transfers/6088

To be completely honest... as an European I would be happy if they actually did make it so that no EU-US data transfer were allowed... we need to stop depending on all these US-based services... but like you said, they probably don't have the balls to pull the plug. Which makes me wonder if that board was actually really any protection at all for privacy or it had always been an empty shell used as an excuse on both sides just to keep up appearances and maintain the plug on.

I honestly think this could be a win for us. Worst case scenario, nothing really changes but some masks fall off and at least some people would stop acting under false pretense.