Quietly Moves Databases To Europe

Microsoft’s lawyer in France confirms that their datacenters in Europe can be accessed by US government

It's not news and since the cloud act, it should be obvious. Also, it means impossibility to respect GDPR so I am really angered by the lazyness of EU companies considering the US like an ally, and EU not applying GDPR to fine all USA companies into oblivion
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- The point is that if an American company has servers in EU, they have to give access to the US government even when the physical hosting is in Europe
France also has black boxes. Don't pick France or the UK. Netherlands, Sweden, Romania and Switzerland (I know) are good European choices. Also Germany but they're already the other half of reddit let's not put all our data centers in Berlin.

I’m in the US and I don’t even want a US email provider for the surveillance concerns alone.

Protonmail, servers in Switzerland. Encrypted so that even proton doesn't have the key. The only downer is if you forget your login info and need to do a full account reset you also lose your encryption key as a new one is generated and old emails are unretrievable.
Good in case of attempted account take over
- Only downside is their CEO supports Trump, and tweeted his support for Trump from Proton’s official company Twitter account. When this whole thing happened, Proton never took those tweets down. Don’t know if they’re still up or not but I don’t care.
  The point is, use Proton if and only if you’re okay with knowing that the company’s official stance is in support of fascism.
  Alternatively, I’d recommend Mailbox.org or Tuta.
- Classic Swiss behavior tbh

Is there more on this?

What is this in reference to? I'm not seeing anything

I do recall users talking about how they need to get tankies deported around the time the ICE budget passed, so this isn't even unreal.

Another reason to move away from all the US based fediverse instances. Last i checked lemmy.world is US based and so are many others of the top servers.

When did you last check? I thought Lemmy.world was Netherlands-based
- Lemmy.world is 100% hosted in Europe. Of course authoritarian groups left and right fantasize about it being hosted in the US for different reasons. Generally when their extreme views are moderated. However those groups also have a lot of control and resources to spread misinformation. Not to mention experience. So I don't find it surprising that a lot of people don't realize it's not.
There was also a growing fear that the Dubvee admin could've been presecuted for the data that was hosted on their server.

Has this threat actually been said out loud?