[nicce]

> A lot of these US vendors have data centers in the EU operating under EU law via legal entities in the EU.

Didn’t even Microsoft say that they can’t guarantee that they can follow these laws? Because the US laws take over. So, legal entities are just some smoke screen. They don’t help if the US government wants access to something.

[graemep]

They did say that last year: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2025/07/25/microsoft-ex...

[judge2020]

I believe this was the Schrems 2 case from 2020 that declared that the EU US Privacy Shield was insufficient at guaranteeing the privacy of EU citizens due to the CLOUD act, which would require US companies work with the government to potentially spy on EU citizens.

I’m not sure what has happened since then or the legal status of this issue.

[inigyou]

The US under Biden did something that made it valid again and then the US under Trump made it invalid again. Right now it's illegal for an EU company to store unencrypted personal data with any US company.