On Dec 17, 4:44 pm, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 17, 3:23 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 17, 1:56 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > It's even worse for us Europeans: Google officially maintains that > > European (privacy) laws don't apply to them since the data processing > > happens in the U.S. I'm sure other companies feel the same. > > Except that before they can process private data in the US, they have > to export it from the EU, which is illegal. They're not above the > laws of the countries that they operate in. Ask the Chinese.
Google's European legal counsel took the stance described above in an official reply to an inquiry by the European Union. I'm pretty sure that Facebook and Twitter and Apple all assume it's legal to get user data to the U.S. since all users of their services agree to the terms and services. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
