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by kuschku 3885 days ago
EU data laws for everything are on a similar level to HIPPA.

Today I got an email because a website where I had an account was sold (from one SevenOne subsidary to another one) and they explained who owned it before, who will own it after, and explained to me that I’d have to allow them to copy my account data to the new company, otherwise it would not be transferred and thereby be lost.

That’s how you do it.

When US startups I have accounts with get bought – like WhatsApp – I never got an email asking if they could sell my data to Facebook.