Hi, and apologies to all for the mostly off-topic post. This is mostly of interest to Europeans, but the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) recently ruled that the 2000 “Safe Harbour” provisions, which allow US companies on US soil to store data on behalf of Europeans, are invalid. This is in the context of the Facebook vs Max Schrems case, but Apple are among the companies that rely on these provisions: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/european-court-rules-safe-harbour-treaty-that-saw-facebook-hand-over-user-data-to-us-is-invalid-a6681291.html
Of course, the spinmeisters on both sides of the pond are desperately looking for workarounds, reconciliations, and compromises which might allow this impossible agreement to continue. Sadly, I fear that this is just another case of reckless policy makers being out of touch with the people and in the pockets of business and the intelligence services. Post Snowden and two years of existing negotiation, I can only hope Apple will be brought into line. Heck, you can’t even ask them to delete your accounts for Apple services. I’ll be glad to be leaving their cloud soon, unless any hope at all can be sought to bring US data protection into line or bring Apple closer to home. Because, honestly, I’d love to be able to trust them. Cheers, Sabahattin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
