Big Clouds Scramble as EU Data Act Brings New Data Transfer Rules
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The EU Data Act introduces new data transfer rules, prompting big cloud companies to adapt, with some seeing potential benefits.
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ktosobcyAuthor
4 months ago
To counterbalance the whole "EU bad" doing only bad things (like Chat Control) -- it sometimes comes up with good ideas as well :)
taintech
4 months ago
Nice to see Google pushing zero-cost transfers, hope others will follow.
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