3 years ago

Category: Business, Database, Data, Privacy, Infrastructure, automation

by On July 16, 2020, the European Court of Justice got rid of the four-year-old Privacy Shield agreement struck between the U.S. and the EU that had exposed Europeans to possible U.S. surveillance. The agreement had also allowed U.S. companies like Facebook and Google to store data about European residents outside of the region.

This is evidenced by the €50M fine France issued to Google back in January for failing to comply with its GDPR obligations.

It was originally developed to meet latency requirements in globally dispersed environments, as it allows data to be tied to a location and lets the database tie data to a user location.