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One still enjoys the tax advantages of the value being added on the Irish side, but also the relatively lax data requirements on the British side.
I am not pro or con anything, just pointing out the arb.
I imagine a future where the workers are on the Irish side of the border but the servers are on the UK side of the border. One still enjoys the tax advantages of the value being added on the Irish side, but also the relatively lax data requirements on the British side. I am not pro or con anything, just pointing out the arb.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370405
I imagine a future where the workers are on the Irish side of the border but the servers are on the UK side of the border. One still enjoys the tax advantages of the value being added on the Irish side, but also the relatively lax data requirements on the British side. I am not pro or con anything, just pointing out the arb.
It is real. I just got an email about this from Google about my gmail account: - Your service provider and data controller is now Google LLC: Because the UK is leaving the EU, we’ve updated our Terms so that a United States-based company, Google LLC, is now your service provider instead of Google Ireland Limited. Google LLC will also become the data controller responsible for your information and complying with appli…
It seems very early to be making changes like this. Google must really benefit somehow from the change, otherwise they could leave it until much later in the year, and see what (if any) changes Parliament makes to privacy and data protection law in the UK.
The optics of this might look bad, but I cannot really fault Google for this move (and I frequently fault Google). They're facing a dilemma of regulatory uncertainty, and this move resolves this dilemma for them (at least, they seem to believe that). Anyone who has ever dealt with powerful regulatory agencies will probably agree that this resolution is the right move for the company, a move important enough that eati…
Pro-Brexiteers have often cited stronger bilateral ties, such as those with the US, as an advantage of Brexit. And of course, post-Brexit, Britain will be ever more reliant on the willingness of countries such as the US to cut deals with them. As an independent negotiator in these new deals, Britain will have less power to push back over silly things like data privacy; and as a member of Five Eyes anyway, they're all…
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Which two, and do you have a source?
Pardon my cynicism if I think it's likely Apple and Netflix. And they probably do that for everyone only because it doesn't eat into the main profit generators in their business models. Not many marketers paying Netflix to advertise their new natural soap line to targeted prospects I'd imagine.
I don't completely understand what gives them the right to do so - legislation are still in place, GDPR & the rest are included.
Not sure why you are being down voted for this - we ratified GDPR under UK law, the UK Data Protection act of 2018 - until that law is repealed GPDR still applies under my understanding.
I think that also breaking the law might be easier. EU might not bother anymore penalizing them for a member that's already leaving, and UK alone will have very little force imposing penalties on an US corporation.
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That sounds really interesting. Would you mind sharing a resource to learn more about how the UK spies on US citizens?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
It is real. I just got an email about this from Google about my gmail account: - Your service provider and data controller is now Google LLC: Because the UK is leaving the EU, we’ve updated our Terms so that a United States-based company, Google LLC, is now your service provider instead of Google Ireland Limited. Google LLC will also become the data controller responsible for your information and complying with appli…
> These changes to our Terms and privacy policy don’t affect your privacy settings or the way that we treat your information. This is such a blatant lie what the hell. The only reason for this move is specifically to treat your information in ways that are not legal now.