<story><title>Lessons from Google&apos;s Geographical GDPR Goof</title><url>https://www.dmnews.com/data/data-management/data-privacy/article/21047138/dont-be-stupid-3-lessons-from-googles-geographical-gdpr-goof</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ggm</author><text>We (staffers) wanted to consider google g suite for integrated mail&amp;#x2F;calendar. We couldn&amp;#x27;t because as an Asia-Pacific entity, we felt we wanted a guarantee our data was in Asia-Pacific (preferably Australian) DC and under local law.&lt;p&gt;What we found, is that only the US State and federal governments can demand US located data from Google. All other economies and agencies can &lt;i&gt;ask&lt;/i&gt; for local, but cannot have it a checkbox requirement: Google retain the right to host you wherever they decide, subject to laws they decide.&lt;p&gt;Somebody else has noted that Microsoft, for all their faults, actually looked at customers in Europe and said &amp;quot;you know what: we can declare hosting in ireland is subject to EU laws and we will (at the right price) guarantee your data is in the EU, subject to EU law&amp;quot; and for that, I salute them.&lt;p&gt;I think Google got this wrong. I think microsoft got this right.&lt;p&gt;We didn&amp;#x27;t go with G Suite. We went another direction with mail and calendar.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lessons from Google&apos;s Geographical GDPR Goof</title><url>https://www.dmnews.com/data/data-management/data-privacy/article/21047138/dont-be-stupid-3-lessons-from-googles-geographical-gdpr-goof</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josteink</author><text>Things like this is why Microsoft is still retaining a lot of business-customers which Google will never touch.&lt;p&gt;They care about addressing the customers need first and foremost, while Google’s #1 priority will always be tracking and ads.&lt;p&gt;When the EU said processing needed to be done in the EU, Microsoft was fine with that, while Google has been playing nice only on paper.&lt;p&gt;With rulings like this, guess which one will seem more reliable and dependable (from a business POV) for the EU market?&lt;p&gt;Not Google. That’s for sure.</text></comment>