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0 pointsepolanski3y ago0 comments

Pretty sure that European users data has to be hosted in Europe and there are serious limits on the info you can get outside.

I know that this is one of the reasons why TikTok has highly invested in Ireland.

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fragmede3y ago

The other being that Ireland is advantageous to incorporate in for tax purposes?

Gwypaas3y ago

There are some provisions for getting data out but they all rely on guaranteeing the same level of protection as GDPR does. This also runs afoul with the CLOUD act since due to that American companies can't store data inside the EU and be compliant.

https://www.imy.se/en/organisations/data-protection/this-app...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

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