Not really, the shell company is the owner of the data and is responsible for the security of it by contract, that's the whole point.
Seagate will not in a million years sign anything like this when you buy a HDD.
Seagate will not in a million years sign anything like this when you buy a HDD.
If your supplier has these compliance audits in place and has the documentation to prove it, this isn’t “absolving”, it’s literally the diligence process.
But a “shell company”, as per your original comment, is not going to reach a compliance threshold to allow the diligence chain to succeed. Just from a business continuity point of view they would fail, but there are plenty of other areas that would be problematic from a compliance standpoint.