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0 pointsM2Ys4U2y ago0 comments

The decision goes further than a fine, though. It orders Meta to stop transferring personal data of people in the EU to the US.

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mschuster912y ago

How is this actually supposed to work in practice, other than sharding EU and non-EU customers and having them unable to communicate across the shards?

brtkdotse2y ago

Meta’s chock full of very smart, highly paid people. I’m sure they’ll figure something out.

tremon2y ago

Why unable to communicate? Is there any reason why the relevant non-EU customer data cannot be stored within the EU as well?

daveoc642y ago

If someone in the US visits a profile page of someone in the EU, that necessitates a transfer of data outside of the EU.

Perhaps that's an extreme and pedantic example though.

sebgaj2y ago

Confidential Cloud computing is the answer and hyperscalers work on that. You literally put your data in a black box.

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