US-Cloud was always illegal for EU-citizens since GDPR. Privacy shield was just the next try to label it as legal without changing the cause (US having no privacy protection) until it gets disabled again by EU court in 5 to 10 years.
Will Trump be the EU’s wakeup call?
I live in Canada and have stopped storing any data in the US. Give me EU data hosting ALL DAY.
I’m skeptical of this making a difference due to this act that was passed in the Netherlands, which allows for sending data to foreign parties without any oversight: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Dutch_Intelligence_and_Security_Services_Act_referendum
illegal in the EU*
When I first read the title I thought it was some clickbait claiming that US cloud providers themselves would all be found to be illegal and cease to exist at all, which is of course, preposterous. Some clarification in the title would have helped.
Indeed; the title confused me too. I guess they assumed the connection with Europe to be implicit, given they are the European Center for Digital Rights and use a .eu domain.
