Google is moving EU citizens’ data to US?
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Google is moving EU citizens’ data to US?
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#2File a complaint: https://edps.europa.eu/node/75_en
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#3> I'm an Italian citizen, living in Italy [...] and I'm fully entitled to GDPR protection and to have my data owned by a European data controller.
I don't think the latter part is true. AFAIK GDPR does not give you the right do have your data owned or processed by an EU entity. GDPR does not say that.
It doesn't matter where your data is stored or processed, Google must still follow GDPR rules for data about EU residents. The first part of the comment is correct.
I'm not actually completely sure why some companies do this whole EU data controller seperate company thing. I guess for organisational or legal simplicity?
(Edit: I reworded to hopefully remove ambiguity)
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#4It's difficult. You are pretending they are deliberately doing it. No one at Google wants to move your data to the US.
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#5I feel like people don't accept that Google needs the EU less than the EU needs Google. If Google were to pull out of the EU overnight, there'd be death as a result. If the EU were to kick Google out, there might still be deaths, but none of them Google employees, and in the end it wouldn't substantially impact Google.
There's no real incentive for Google to be a good actor: they have all of the leverage, and if the EU's fines get excessive, Google can always pull out.
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#6It's difficult. You are pretending they are deliberately doing it. No one at Google wants to move your data to the US.
> It's difficult.
Please elaborate. What is difficult? And why is it difficult?
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#7kinda clickbait
[edit for clarity]
Please cite where [your] data is now stored and how you found that information. Cause I'm US based and I got the same email! WTF Google?
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#8> I'm an Italian citizen, living in Italy [...] and I'm fully entitled to GDPR protection and to have my data owned by a European data controller. I don't think the latter part is true. AFAIK GDPR does not give you the right do have your data owned or processed by an EU entity. GDPR does not say that. It doesn't matter where your data is stored or processed, Google must still follow GDPR rules for data about EU resid…
Yes, even if he lives outside the EU
https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/
It applies even to non EU citizens resident in the EU.
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#9How exactly is this illegal?
AFAIK, it's not illegal (per GDPR) to process EU citizen data in data controllers if the individual is no longer in the EU.
_Edit_: Yes, I read the article. It looks like this person got this email notification because they had activity in London (per their resume on their website). That doesn't make the email illegal nor does it mean their activity in Italy is going to be on a non-EU controller.
The email implicitly states that it's for the UK only.
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#10I feel like people don't accept that Google needs the EU less than the EU needs Google. If Google were to pull out of the EU overnight, there'd be death as a result. If the EU were to kick Google out, there might still be deaths, but none of them Google employees, and in the end it wouldn't substantially impact Google. There's no real incentive for Google to be a good actor: they have all of the leverage, and if the…
Europe is a huge advertising and services market. Excluding it would put a huge dent in Google's profitability.