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> if you want better protection for your data than the US provides: do not send your data to the US

Should EU companies be allowed to send my data to the US, then?

> If you seriously think that the US government is going to let the EU fine some US-based business without any EU presence millions of dollars because Brussels passed some law, you’re headed for disappointment.

The US shut down a lot of non-US poker businesses, including PokerStars in the Isle of Man. And sent the FBI to New Zealand to seize Kim "dotcom". If a US based business becomes a sufficiently big problem for EU privacy, it's going to get fined, and we're going to find out whether the EU-US cooperation is bidirectional.




Should EU companies be allowed to send my data to the US, then?

Of course not. Businesses should be bound by the laws of their jurisdictions.

And you won’t catch me defending the US throwing its weight around to violate the sovereignty of other nations either. It’s wrong for us to do it too.




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