[AusNOG] Fwd: Google Cloud Platform and the decision on Safe Harbor by the Court of Justice of the European Union

[Mattia Rossi]

This has been discussed a lot in Europe lately (as you can imagine).

Thing is: Google will send out some updated T&C or similar, where you 
need to click accept in order to continue to use their service, agreeing 
to let Google store data in the US which can be inspected by the US 
government.
Given that most people AND companies do actually not care about their 
data (especially the small and very small or individual businesses who 
make up a huge chunk of users) they will just click ok, and rather keep 
using the service, than look after their data. Many users won't even 
read this new T&C's as they never do, and simply accept.

So in the End it's a bit of work for Google, they might lose a handful 
of customers, but overall nothing changes.

That's my 2c.

Question is: should you as provider (or facilitator) of those services 
explicitly tell your customers?

Cheers,

Mat

Am 15.10.2015 um 06:16 schrieb Skeeve Stevens:
> Curious. Might be relevant to some.
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> The recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) 
> declaring the European Commission’s decision on US-EU Safe Harbor 
> framework to be invalid is an important development in the area of 
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