It is now illegal to transmit personal information of EU citizens to cloud infrastructure in the #US as they won't be protected by the #GDPR.

Many European service providers will have to move quickly to avoid fines, but eventually #EU data will be held in the EU, benefiting companies in Europe, and supporting #DigitalSovereignty.

That means AWS, Azure, Google and iCloud can lose a sizeable chunk of their customer base if no moves are made. I am all for it.

berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-…

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings

The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds.

^{Bert Hubert's writings}

🎯 Transform your organization with Nextcloud Enterprise!

Enjoy unparalleled data privacy, seamless collaboration, and compliance with regulations like #GDPR and #HIPAA.

Take control of your data today!

#NextcloudEnterprise #DataSovereignty

nextcloud.com/enterprise/

Nextcloud Enterprise: Content collaboration software for enterprises

The Nextcloud Enterprise version gives organizations and enterprises a stable and secure content collaboration software

^Nextcloud

Is Microsoft 365 tracking European schoolchildren against the #GDPR? 🕵🏾

Our friends at @noybeu are concerned: "Hundreds of thousands of European schoolchildren are likely being tracked by Microsoft education software widely deployed in schools"

#dataprivacy

euronews.com/next/2024/06/04/m…

Microsoft software accused of breaching data rights of EU schoolchildren

NOYB asked the Austrian privacy watchdog to investigate the use of Microsoft Education 365.

^{Cynthia Kroet (Euronews.com)}

#FediBlock snarfed.org and brid.gy for bridging fediverse folks to Bluesky against their will (and in likely contravention of GDPR in the EU) with typical Silicon Valley techbro sense of entitlement:

“[O]pt in results in far fewer users, and users are critical for a bridge to be useful.”¹

Relevant GitHub issue: github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/…

¹ snarfed.org/2023-11-27_re-intr…

HT @homegrown

#bridgy #snarfed #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bridging #optOut #optIn #consent #gdpr #eu #SiliconValley #techbros

Opt-out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered · Issue #835 · snarfed/bridgy-fed

It should be pretty obvious that a decentralized network that many use specifically to not be connected to centralized networks houses mostly people who do not wish to have their posts bridged to B...

^GitHub

Features I didn't know were in #NextcloudTalk?

How about the ability to avoid sending all my messages, and my contacts messages to #Google via #Firebase / #FCM?

*checks*
Nope.

I'll be using #Matrix with #Element/#Fluffychat until you decide that #UnifiedPush is a thing and #privacy is actually important. Users already made #NextPush to make it easier. Is the current situation even #GDPR compliant?

This is more important than making the interface slightly prettier in Hub 3.

The Procurement Chamber in the German state of Baden-Württemberg decided that the transfer of personal data outside of the EU is not #GDPR compatible.

"It’s a landmark decision that has a huge influence in Germany & the rest of Europe"

#GDPR #SchremsII
nextcloud.com/blog/baden-wurtt…

Baden-Württemberg Procurement Chamber decides US Cloud Services are not GDPR compliant - Nextcloud

In July 2020, the Schrems II case invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield meaning that data transfers to non-EU countries were illegal under the GDPR. From this point forward, companies immediately had to comply with the new decision.

^{Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)}

The theme of this year: Shaping the future of privacy 💙
Many of you would ask yourselves, why this #theme?
Well, Nextcloud has been offering privacy and security since 2019
🕵️ But especially now, we together are shaping the future of privacy.

#nextcloudconf #Privacy #GDPR

The Procurement Chamber in the German state of Baden-Württemberg decided that the transfer of personal data outside of the EU is not #GDPR compatible.

"It’s a landmark decision that has a huge influence in Germany & the rest of Europe"

#GDPR #SchremsII
nextcloud.com/blog/baden-wurtt…

Baden-Württemberg Procurement Chamber decides US Cloud Services are not GDPR compliant

In July 2020, the Schrems II case invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield meaning that data transfers to non-EU countries were illegal under the GDPR. From this point forward, companies immediately had to comply with the new decision.

^{Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)}

The Procurement Chamber in the German state of Baden-Württemberg decided that the transfer of personal data outside of the EU is not #GDPR compatible.

"It’s a landmark decision that has a huge influence in Germany & the rest of Europe" #GDPR #SchremsII
nextcloud.com/blog/baden-wurtt…

Baden-Württemberg Procurement Chamber decides US Cloud Services are not GDPR compliant

In July 2020, the Schrems II case invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield meaning that data transfers to non-EU countries were illegal under the GDPR. From this point forward, companies immediately had to comply with the new decision.

^{Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)}

The Procurement Chamber in the German state of Baden-Württemberg decided that the transfer of personal data outside of the EU is not #GDPR compatible.

“It’s a landmark decision that has a huge influence in Germany & the rest of Europe” #GDPR #SchremsII

nextcloud.com/blog/baden-wurtt…

Baden-Württemberg Procurement Chamber decides US Cloud Services are not GDPR compliant

In July 2020, the Schrems II case invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield meaning that data transfers to non-EU countries were illegal under the GDPR. From this point forward, companies immediately had to comply with the new decision.

^{Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)}

“Today’s decision frees hundreds of millions of Europeans from consent spam, and the deeper hazard that their most intimate online activities will be passed around by thousands of companies”.

Great win for privacy! #privacy #GDPR

iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enforcer-rul…

GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.

^{Johnny Ryan (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)}

The Data Protection Officer in Berlin has come to the conclusion that the FU University can not use WebEX for violating fundamental user rights #GDPR #Compliance

Same for Zoom, Teams, Skype, Google Meet & GoToMeeting!

Go for #selfhosting #localhosting
golem.de/news/datenschutzbeauf…