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As far as I know it's still possible to transfer data from the EU to the US under the GDPR if the companies involved have signed a ``standard contractual clause''[0] (the article says this was also a target of the Privacy Shield suit but the courts chose to continue to allow it).

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/inte...

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Right, which Google[1], Amazon[2], and Microsoft[3] even offer to third parties on their cloud platforms. That ruling was mostly just a quibbling about the legal particulars, it didn’t change anything on the ground.

[1]: https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/10042247?hl=en [2]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/customer-update-aws-an... [3]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offer...

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