So, question here: If I move from outside EU to a country that is part of the block, does that mean that my Google Account will change the terms and mention something about GDPR?
Google is moving EU citizens’ data to US?
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, this is not true. 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.
Why changing the data controller to Google LLC for UK users only then? (ignore the fact that they misunderstood me for a UK resident)
I'm also a UK resident. I can't answer your question, but at a guess, they are segregating data than falls under the GDPR, keeping it isolated from data that does not; you wouldn't have to place it in the EU to do that of course, but it might make sense for some reason.
I'm curious as to where you have got the belief that your data must be stored in the EU. Perhaps you could point towards where in the GDPR you got this from?
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#103I 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…
And that would be the end of Google. Anti-trust regulators in countries where it remained would take pretty decisive action in the face of that sort of madness.
(Also whoever made this decision would presumably be torn apart by enraged shareholders)
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
A small Colorado company collecting data on EU residents, and mistreating it, would fall foul of GDPR. Yes, the EU doesn't really have much recourse outside of the EU, so there's not much they'll do. Theoretically , if you step foot in the EU they might come after you, but I'm sure you could understand why that would be exceptional circumstances. Google, however, does have entities within the EU, so they can enforce…
What stops Google or other evil corp from doing the dirty business through small companies in Denver and other places in the US? Can they purchase data from uncountable small actors without any legal repercussion?
Because the EU will be like "oh, I see what you're doing. Pay up Google EU"
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#105UPDATE: I've updated the article removing the "illegal" words. Since it doesn't seem to be clear if this is legal or not from their side, I think it's right to give it the benefit of the doubt. (give CloudFlare a few minutes to update the cache, please)
This isn't illegal. You worked in London and had enough UK-based activity to warrant receiving an email notification about UK-based data handlers.
let’s try to keep the technical mistake separate from the legal bit. I think their email is entirely legit if I was living in UK, but I don’t.
Also: honestly, I use Google Maps almost everyday. Even without asking me I think they have plenty of data on me to clearly see I’ve been living in Italy in the last year and half.
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#106There 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…
> Google will make a good effort reducing such errors
suuuuuuure.
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#107I 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…
In which would way would you specifically think of "the EU needs Google"? Startups using Google Office? Google Mail? (I've dropped Gmail and Office a year ago, but I might come back)
Me asking a question in a discussion to better understand the train of thought gets voted down. Could someone explain this to me to better understand the downvotes?
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#108Re: Google is moving EU citizens’ data to US?
#109Goto https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-personalization
Change Language to English(Ireland)
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#110I wonder if this is an issue with Andrea's Google account. Maybe it's some setting that makes Google think he's from the UK. The text of the same paragraph, just as I received it from Google: "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!…
Same issue. I am resident in Lithuania (but I am from the UK originally). When I view youtube (on a firefox browser I have never logged in to youtube with) I get the same message...