Google is starting to react to the decision of Austria and France (and soon others, I guess), that #GoogleAnalytics is illegal.
However, unless I'm wrong (and I'd be happy to accept it!), #Google still receives the IP address and is an American company, so subject to FISA and the Cloud Act...
That doesn't totally solve the problem. But a legal entity created in the EU and the data was stored in the EU, could that be an acceptable compromise for the court?
As I commented to ☁️ Julien Coquet yesterday, for now, it's aimed at the big bad #GAFAM, but ChiefMartech's latest supergraph has no less than 8,000 solution providers. How many of them would be illegal overnight simply because they are American companies, or worse, simply because they use cloud solutions from AWS, Azure or GCP (and we don't always know that)?
I still think my comment the other day about "cyber-protectionism" wasn't that crazy or out of place...
For now, this is a legal battle between the EU and some American tech giants. However, the lobbying of these companies is so strong that it will quickly become impossible for Biden not to "retaliate." It will turn into a political issue (and Biden, with the weak position he has, will have to deal with Trump protectionism.)
It is clear to me that America will not let trillions of dollars leave its borders without a fight.
#NoConsentNoTracking #dataprivacy #GDPRcompliance