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kinda 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?
And by that, I mean I got that same email. And I definitely live in the US. Please cite sources of them actually moving [your] data to Google LLC and or US.
Is there a way to find out where my google account is hosted ?
I'm willing to bet your data is hosted in multiple locations based on the service you're using. I don't think it's as simple as "Oh John Smith's account is hosted in Lenoir, NC".
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Europe is a huge advertising and services market. Excluding it would put a huge dent in Google's profitability.
Europe and the EU are not the same thing. It wouldn't put a "huge" dent in Google's profitability: EMEA accounted for something like 30% of Google's revenue last year, and now that the UK is no longer part of the EU, it's probably substantially less from the EU.
There is obviously some ambiguity in the rules when people move around, and misclassifications can happen when, say, a Brasilian working for a US company in Switzerland picks up the neighbouring French wireless signal to log into their Asian VPN. But it's really a non-issue. Google will make a good effort reducing such errors, and there aren't going to be legal consequences, nor wild leaving-Europe-for-good-drama as…
We all know that mistakes can happen. That is not the issue. The issue here is that there is no way to contact them and ask to fix this. I tried at least 3 or 4 times to contact them on Twitter (they are replying to other people for other issues, why not replying to me?) but I didn't have any luck with it.
> 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…
Companies need to be up front with you about what data they keep, and why, and they have to comply with the regs - but nowhere does it say your data has to be kept in the EU.
"We’re improving our Terms of Service and making them easier for you to understand. The changes will take effect on March 31, 2020, and they won’t impact the way you use Google services."
No mention of Google LLC. And, surprise! I'm an Italian citizen living in Italy.
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Europe and the EU are not the same thing. It wouldn't put a "huge" dent in Google's profitability: EMEA accounted for something like 30% of Google's revenue last year, and now that the UK is no longer part of the EU, it's probably substantially less from the EU.
I think you have a very skewed view of the world if you think 30% of Google's revenue (meaning tens of billions of dollars) isn't huge.
I take this as a strong indicator, that Google believes you are a UK citizen.
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I'm willing to bet your data is hosted in multiple locations based on the service you're using. I don't think it's as simple as "Oh John Smith's account is hosted in Lenoir, NC".
Of course it is. It's called backups, and being prepared. If one data center burns down or is taken offline for other reason your data needs to be somewhere else.
Somewhere else doesn't necessarily need to be "in different jurisdiction"
I 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…
> I feel like people don't accept that Google needs the EU less than the EU needs Google. It is this sort of reasoning that will get Google slapped around. The whole idea that some corporation's interests or might trumps that of a continent with 300+ million people and a very substantial part of the world economy and Google's income is, frankly, ridiculous.