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		nerbert on Feb 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French... These tools have EU versions of their services with servers in Ireland or other places so that the data does not leave the territory. There will be absolutely no consequence to these regulations.

mediascreen on Feb 10, 2022 [–]

The server locations does not seem to matter as long as American government agencies are able to make the company provide the information.

But, companies like AWS claim that they voluntarily bind them selves to to provide much stricter privacy safeguards than the US law requires[0].

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-and-eu-data-transf...

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