Google plans to move UK users' accounts outside EU jurisdiction

Previously posted and discussed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22370405" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22370405</a>

Duplicate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22370405" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22370405</a>

The optics of this might look bad, but I cannot really fault Google for this move (and I frequently fault Google).<p>They&#x27;re facing a dilemma of regulatory uncertainty, and this move resolves this dilemma for them (at least, they seem to believe that).<p>Anyone who has ever dealt with powerful regulatory agencies will probably agree that this <i>resolution</i> is the right move for the company, a move important enough that eating some bad PR is probably totally worth it.<p>(The point about powerful regulatory agencies is not that it&#x27;s hard to stay compliant; it&#x27;s that the costs, overhead, bureaucracy etc. of demonstrating this compliance is immense, even if you are doing everything 100% right.)

It is real. I just got an email about this from Google about my gmail account:<p>- Your service provider and data controller is now Google LLC: Because the UK is leaving the EU, we’ve updated our Terms so that a United States-based company, Google LLC, is now your service provider instead of Google Ireland Limited. Google LLC will also become the data controller responsible for your information and complying with applicable privacy laws. We’re making similar changes to the Terms of Service for YouTube, YouTube Paid Services and Google Play. These changes to our Terms and privacy policy don’t affect your privacy settings or the way that we treat your information (see the privacy policy [link redacted] for details). As a reminder, you can always visit your Google Account &lt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myaccount.google.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myaccount.google.com</a> &gt; to review your privacy settings and manage how your data is used.

I imagine a future where the workers are on the Irish side of the border but the servers are on the UK side of the border.<p>One still enjoys the tax advantages of the value being added on the Irish side, but also the relatively lax data requirements on the British side.<p>I am not pro or con anything, just pointing out the arb.

Does anyknow what happens if I move out of the UK to rEU? Will my account now be considered to be an EU account or will it always be a UK one?

Thanks, Brexit!

I would imagine N.Irish users might end up being covered by GDPR -- British law also N.Irish people to declare themselves Irish under the GFA. N.Ireland could well end up with a special status post-Brexit where it&#x27;s both in and out of the EU and in and out of the UK.<p>Given European data protection is much stronger than either British or American DP it would make sense to group N.Irish people this way rather than trying to deal with the exceptions.

I don&#x27;t completely understand what gives them the right to do so - legislation are still in place, GDPR &amp; the rest are included.

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