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by faeyanpiraat 1749 days ago
You think you host your PI data in the EU, but in fact it is sitting on US soil.
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jhugo 1749 days ago
If you are hosting your PI data in Switzerland and you think you are hosting it in the EU, you already have a problem.
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erk__ 1749 days ago
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...

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moksly 1749 days ago
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.
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cbg0 1749 days ago
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.

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