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> Luckily, cloud providers have never received a secret warrant they can't reveal the existence of wink and spy agencies would never operate outside the law wink so the apparent conflict has never arisen in reality wink

European states are fully aware of that problem, hence why eg companies storing medical data must do so with servers located in Europe and owned by European companies.

There's the question of whether it's safe to use servers provided by a european subsidiary of an american company and if the company would bypass their european employees or order them to break the law, but it's not a question that stakeholders are pretending doesn't exist.




Medical data is a small portion of data.




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