Is het legaal om persoonsgegevens op servers van Amerikanen te zetten? - Bert Hubert's writings
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- Transferring personal data to US servers, even within the EU, has long been legally controversial due to US government surveillance powers.
- The Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework (TDPF) heavily relied on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), which Trump effectively disabled in January.
- With the PCLOB non-functional, data transfers to US companies like Microsoft 365 may soon become unlawful, and are already foreseeably unlawful.
- The European Parliament is questioning the European Commission about the PCLOB status, and a crucial executive order may also be rescinded by March 6.
- Alternatives to US cloud services exist, such as LibreOffice and non-Outlook email, making it untenable to claim no alternative is available.