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> Posthog - its SaaS is US based so dismissed early by EU customers.

Posthog has had an EU server for years. I'm not sure what you mean by this.

An EU server isn't enough. Those EU servers should be operated and maintained by an EU subsidy that licenses the tech from the US company. In other words, even if the US company wanted the data served by the EU company, they couldn't get to it.

It is US company. It does not matter where the servers are physically located.

It would be quite funny to reply to an NSA request by saying "Oh yeah, I have that data and can access it but its on a server in the EU. I can get it, but I won't."

I genuinely don't know how they would proceed, but it'd be interesting to watch.

Some not-so-friendly men in suits will show up at your house. Afterwards you will most certainly comply.

I mean if you can even refuse that, this is national agency we talking about

They can physically tap global internet cable just because they can

ok if that possible, what makes EU agency not doing the same to EU base company then???

Well the EU absolutely could do the same thing. If an EU-based company had servers in the US, I would expect the EU could compel them to hand over data despite where the data is stored.

The EU doesn’t do law enforcement. That is a national concern. But a legal request from one country to another may well happen.

I misspoke there, I was meaning Europe and shouldn't have put EU.

Agreed, the union doesn't have any enforcement mechanism I'm aware of that would fit, but any country in Europe could do a similar thing to companies based in their borders.

The EU doesn't have something like the CLOUD Act, so they wouldn't be able to do that.

EU doesn’t have that kind of agency.

Member states have spy agencies, but they also signed treaties to join the EU. Having your spy agency violate international treaties isn’t something most governments allow.

If the company or individual is in a country, expect they can be compelled to hand over everything in their possession by a court order (or it can be siezed).

If the information is stored in a country, expect that the owner of the information can be compelled to hand it over by a court order (or it can be seized).

Probably randomly find 3kg of cocaine on your person.

Niche markets always allow good products to survive.

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