But the EU's data protection supervisor is also investigating the bloc's use of cloud services from US giants Amazon and Microsoft over the same data transfer concern.
Which doesn't help if US law allows US authorities to compel US companies to hand over data even if stored in foreign data centers.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act).
We used to use a European provider for quite many years, but then they got bought by a US company and we had to move our services and clients to a new one.
What's next? We shouldn't slack together? We shouldn't text each other? We can't collaborate on a google doc? We shouldn't share the same Slashdot platform?
But the EU's data protection supervisor is also investigating the bloc's use of cloud services from US giants Amazon and Microsoft over the same data transfer concern.
EU has their own data centers. [technavio.com]
Which doesn't help if US law allows US authorities to compel US companies to hand over data even if stored in foreign data centers.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act).
The point being despite all the consolidation not all data center companies [datacenterknowledge.com] are US companies.
True, but.. more and more are.
We used to use a European provider for quite many years, but then they got bought by a US company and we had to move our services and clients to a new one.
Hopefully they will not be bought anytime soon..
So now we shouldn't zoom together.
What's next? We shouldn't slack together? We shouldn't text each other? We can't collaborate on a google doc? We shouldn't share the same Slashdot platform?
Where does it end?