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Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US

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Re: Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US

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> a non-US-citizen wouldn’t even have standing to sue wrt their personal data Sure they would, I think? They would just have to foot the bill to travel and file in a US court. And whatever user agreements they 'agreed' to might come in to play without legislation to supersede it. But they would have standing, I'm pretty sure.

Not a lawyer and not going to find the relevant references in the US’s vast body of law in reasonable time, so let’s check what the CJEU concluded? Schrems I [1] (the old CJEU judgment invalidating Safe Harbor) endorses (§90) the opinion that: > [D]ata subjects [whose personal data was transferred to the US] had no administrative or judicial means of redress enabling, in particular, the data relating to them to be ac…

I think you are right. I lost the context the original comment was made in, and was thinking more about damage coming from company negligence, and not government sanctioned surveillance.

Re: Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US

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That is an absurdly Americentric take on this case. Corporations should adopt to local laws, not the other way around.

Corporations should make the laws.

And while you're at it, let the toddlers weigh in.

Re: Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US

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Funny thing is, us data is almost always maintained by people outside of the US, at least for banking. The servers may live in the us, but the people accessing it are probably located in Europe or India. This also means that the data lives their temporarily while it is being accessed. The US definitely needs stronger laws here.

> The US definitely needs stronger laws here. Can someone clarify for me why the physical location where data is stored is a big deal? Why does the US need stronger laws here? This is probably just my inner naive technologist speaking, but I really enjoyed the moment of time during which the internet was a global network of computers that created a virtual space where physical borders were largely irrelevant. So it's…

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