I thought gdpr forced companies to store data securely in the eu. Are they saying they'll transfer that data to the us to give Trump access, cause that's a gdpr violation and should result in fines and eventual removal from the eu market.
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There are provisions. I don't remember the exact name of it, but basically, the US says "yah, these business are legit ok, you see?" and the EU is like "oh, ok, deal". This includes the big providers and a handful of others, obviously.
And yes, it is a farce.
The first sentence and the first paragraph of the article:
even if that data is stored overseas
and should result in fines
Hahaha should
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So we all agree that "if demanded" ANYONE'S data can be spied on. Doesn't matter where.
At least it's finally admitted to out in the open.
No one is safe anywhere…
Does this also mean Microsoft would allow China to spy on the US if asked?
My assumption for many years now has been that the answer to any question involving MS giving access to your data is "yes."
How is that news? The CLOUD Act is law since 2018.
I'm guessing the admits part and of course Trump is the current (quite jutified) bogeyman.
Continuing to do business in the US after the CLOUD act already implied enough.
Didn’t Microsoft say not too long ago not to worry, because they didn’t have to give access to data?
suck my arch btw
well...... there is self-hosting too
As an EU citizen, I don't find the idea of the US government having access to my data nearly as frightening as the idea of my own government getting into my accounts.
What if the US decided to share info about the data on your accounts to your government?
isn't this part of how the [insert number] eyes works?
Pretty much, basically the country’s involved will share loads of intelligence with each other and data will be a big thing they’ll share.
It was the same for Biden, why did no-one care then?
Yeah I wondered the same thing. That cloud act went into effect in 2018. Haven't seen anyone try to change it in the last 6 years
Goodbye!
Listen, I'm extremely anti-trump but the guy has a point. Evil things can be evil regardless of who is in charge, but we only seem to care when the narrative shifts in certain directions. Why didn't we care about this back then?
I haven't used a Microsoft product in my personal life in twenty years. One of the primary reasons for that is that I don't trust them with my privacy. People (gestures broadly at the tech space) have been expressing similar sentiment for decades.
We are not a monolith, and some people have cared about these things while others have not.
For those who only just began caring, I find it entirely reasonable that when the top of the pyramid wasn't Trump, someone who there are a great many reasons to distrust, they weren't as worried about it.
If you didn't care about it until recently, only you can answer the question you have asked.
All of which is far more of an answer than the sheer whataboutism merited.
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