Working with Europe and Europeans might be about to get much tougher. No one truly understands. Things are transforming. Likely. But again, nobody actually understands.

The issue at hand is data sovereignty, which essentially describes which state holds your data. Europeans using services generously supplied by those businesses have frequently found many of our biggest Internet companies’ data saved on computers located beyond the EU, since they are American, for the past bunch of years.
This has seemingly caused rather a spot of trouble among some EU citizens who took the entire NSA/Snowden matter with considerably less of a sense of humor in relation to the remainder of us. Seemingly, a few of these people do not enjoy the thought of having their data on servers that are American because afterward the awful NSA people could go pawing through their digital detritus, stealing advice about favored dinner condiments, corporate trade secrets, and their strange small customs.

Do not get me wrong. Solitude is a critically important problem. Whatever the degree of treasonous conduct by Russia-runner Edward Snowden, the notion the American government (or some government, for that matter) might often look at private advice (or even metadata) should be of concern to any or all citizens, counterterrorism efforts however.

The European Court of Justice overturned the longstanding US-EU Safe Harbor deals.

There is a great deal of legal sophistication and diplo-talk in what makes up the Safe Harbor deal, but it basically enables American businesses to save info belonging to Europeans on servers situated in America.

The companies now assert the Safe Harbor framework is not valid, which would — and here’s where it gets totally fuzzed — appear to indicate that American businesses aren’t permitted to save European’s data within America.

This really is fuzzy since this is a diplomatic issue and when there’s any one group of professional that makes a profession out of being noncommittal, and uncertain, unspecific, it is diplomats.