Privacy shield and emacs

Privacy shield and emacs

[Theodor Thornhill]

Hello!

I am almost certain the answer to this is "not a problem at all", but I
still want to ask:

Is emacs in any way (its users, companies letting employees use it,
maintainers etc) affected by the new ruling in CJEU in the middle of
July?  More specifically, is there any data transfer between EU and US?

This ruling may make Office 365, AWS, Azure, (and I'm guessing) VS, VS
code, IntelliJ illegal to use for companies in the EU.  It is still a
little hard to find good articles about this (some are in the
footnotes), since it a is fairly new ruling.


Have a nice day,
Theodor Thornhill


Footnotes:
- https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2019-2024/jourova/announcements/press-conference-speaking-points-vice-president-jourova-following-judgment-judgment-case-c-31118_en

- https://noyb.eu/en/next-steps-eu-companies-faqs

Re: Privacy shield and emacs

[Paul Eggert]

On 8/30/20 2:43 AM, Theodor Thornhill wrote:
> Is emacs in any way (its users, companies letting employees use it,
> maintainers etc) affected by the new ruling in CJEU in the middle of
> July?  More specifically, is there any data transfer between EU and US?

I don't know why Emacs would be affected by the ruling, any more than (say) 
Firefox. If you want a legal opinion, though, you should consult a lawyer.

Re: Privacy shield and emacs

[Richard Stallman]

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

Running Emacs does not send any data to anyone
unless you specifically ask to send it.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)