UK Google users could lose EU GDPR data protections

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Google is to move the data and user accounts of its British users from the EU to the US, placing them outside the strong privacy protections offered by European regulators.

The shift, prompted by Britain’s exit from the EU, will leave the sensitive personal information of tens of millions not covered by Europe’s world-leading General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore with less protection and within easier reach of British law enforcement.
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I imagine that this will apply to other data harvesters such as Amazon, Netflix, etc.
 
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Anyone read it to give us the short idiot version , unless i'm the only one being spammed with this banner? :)
 
“Nothing about our services or our approach to privacy will change, including how we collect or process data, and how we respond to law enforcement demands for users’ information,” Google said in a statement. “The protections of the UK GDPR will still apply to these users.”
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That last sentence though...?
 
I just (5mins ago) had to agree to some new policy on a blue bar up top of Google homepage, not sure if related but never seen that one before esp. blue.

Opened an In-Private page so I could see it again:


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It isn't really much of a protection anyway, under GDPR corporations seem to be able to do anything they want so long as they get your consent and not consenting often means not being allowed to use their service. What's needed is actual protections that tell corporations that they can't do certain things.

Terms and Conditions seem to have superseded law in many cases and UK/US government have been too busy messing around failing to deliver Brexit and trying to oust Trump to do anything about it.
 
As far i know GDPR does nothing besides annoy me with "cookies consent". I'm already under the impression Youtube, Maps and Windows are only free because of data mining.

I use Brave, but don't think it really does much besides block ads.
 
GDPR provides protection to the users in the EU - I don't see why they would cease to apply just because the data is now held outside the EU. The data subjects are still residents of the EU and therefore GDPR applies. It's part of the reason some sites I've come across have taken a blunt approach of just banning anyone from the EU from accessing their site. As Maccy pointed out - Google also seems to have said this?
 
It doesn't matter where the data is held, if the data subject is protected by GDPR then it applies everywhere in the world
 
Good. It might actually make people move away from using their spyware products. It needs to get worse before it gets better, because right now no one seems to give a crap.
 
so the thread title is just alarmist,

moreover/more-interesting, with brexit, are we still subject to new laws created during the 'transition' phase Voyage of Odysseus

if we/uk don't adopt the new copyright directive, then google will want to differentiate our service from the 'europeans'

https://9to5google.com/2019/02/14/future-of-google-news/
The EU Copyright Directive is well-intentioned, requiring tech giants to license the right to reproduce copyrighted material on their own websites. However, the legislation as originally proposed would have made it impossible for Google to display brief snippets and photos from news stories in its search results without paying the news sites
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