[mrtksn]

> Their servers are based in Texas, USA and Luxemburg, Europe and their development team in Bulgaria

I don't believe it means anything. They form a company in Switzerland, which makes them compliant to the Swiss laws, they rent infrastructure from a provider where these services are most favourable for their business(which in this case could be USA and Luxembourg) and they do their tech dev work in Bulgaria(Which is in EU) because they get the most bang for their buck in this country.

What I see is simply business as usual. Are there even single origin tech companies? Even if everything is Swiss, if you have your app on the Apple App Stor or Google Play, you would be required to comply with US laws. You came up with an interesting encryption? Well, you will be asked to document it as part of you export compliance if you are going to make the app available outside of the US.

[faeyanpiraat]

You think you host your PI data in the EU, but in fact it is sitting on US soil.

[jhugo]

If you are hosting your PI data in Switzerland and you think you are hosting it in the EU, you already have a problem.

[erk__]

As I understand it it is actually not a issue as they have strong enough privacy laws that EU have said good for it. Though when doing business with EU citizens they of course still have to follow the rest of gdpr.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/inte...

[moksly]

It depends on the kind of data stored. Things critical to your national security or citizen data usually needs to be stored within EUs borders.

[cbg0]

Unless I'm mistaken, you should be able to host the data inside the EEA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area).

While Switzerland is not a member, they do have special agreements for trade reasons so it might be okay to store data there.