[e98cuenc]

I don't see how they can continue the service, even with huge localisation effort. The capital sin is to be a US company. That subjects them to US law, including CLOUD act, which the UE considers to be incompatible with privacy guarantees.

Even if cloud providers use local datacenters they are still in "violation". If the US makes a data request using CLOUD act, they will have to comply, no matter where these servers are sitting.

Ironically, the UE intelligence services are happy to take the anti-terrorist information that the US is extracting with the CLOUD act and sharing with them.

[jruohonen]

To my understanding, the CLOUD Act is nothing like FISA already because it is about criminal law. Besides, the EU also recently enacted its own quite similar "e-evidence" law, and similar laws are pushed globally through the Budapest Convention. The biggest problem here probably is that the mutual legal assistance system is being replaced internationally by much more opaque practices. (And as for cyber crime, some major "players" are not participating.)

[bootloop]

The intelligence services are not advocates for privacy laws.

[goodpoint]

Don't try to paint the US as the victim here because it's honestly ridiculous.

[vman81]

> which the UE considers to be incompatible with privacy guarantees.

Well, the whole "global jurisdiction" is iffy for the rest of the world.