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ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 year agoFinding examples is difficult, as most articles tend to be about the big tech companies that have bases globally. But I can point you towards the legal mechanism the EU uses in the case of the US, which is the EU-US Data Protection Umbrella agreement, see here: “Law enforcement cooperation: EU-US Umbrella Agreement” commission.europa.eu/…/eu-us-data-transfers_en#:~…
This is an international agreement between the EU and the US. When the UK Brexited, I believe (but not 100% sure) they were no longer part of that agreement, meaning the UK lost the ability to efficiently go after companies without a base in the UK even if the law remained identical.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Ah ok. Yeah they just did a thing to replicate it recently. Not sure if that means there was a period when that ability was lost though
…org.uk/international-data-transfers-data-bridge