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> These hopes may however be shattered soon. It is not unlikely that the new deal will be invalidated by the CJEU - just like the two previous EU-US data deals (“Privacy Shield” and “Safe Harbor”). Such invalidations have retroactive effect.

If I understood correctly, if they keep transferring data to the US before CJEU considers that the nee deal does satisfy regulations, they may just be setting themselves up to another record fine.

I'm fine with this.

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The locality where data rests on disk shouldn't matter for the legal process of getting access to it, and the US law takes this position. Otherwise we're going to have rampant protectionism under the guise of data protection which is part of the EU regulatory apparatus.