Reply to: Microsoft May Halt the Expansion of a UK Datacenter Due To Brexit

[shaunbhoy]

Nah, can't be as their head office is in Newton Abbey

Northern Ireland?

[darmstadt]

Is this them??

American Redneck Society

Nah, can't be as their head office is in Newton Abbey

[shaunbhoy]

Snap. The US company I work for were looking at opening an office in the UK

Is this them??

American Redneck Society

[darmstadt]

Looks like Germany can't lose. They do everything right and then we go a Brexit, giving them even more money.

Everyone move to Germany quick, it's soooo lovely.

Not at the moment, it's ******* cold

[DimPrawn]

Looks like Germany can't lose. They do everything right and then we go a Brexit, giving them even more money.

Everyone move to Germany quick, it's soooo lovely.

[darmstadt]

My previous client already decided to open a datacentre in Germany in stead of the UK back in July, because of the outcome of the Brexit referendum

Snap. The US company I work for were looking at opening an office in the UK but due to Brexit decided not to (it's now in Germany), not the only one I've come across. Admittedly they're all small companies but every little penny helps...

[LondonManc]

A Microsoft "Manager" eh?

A bit akin to relying on the gossip supplied by the cleaner

Oh crap, that can only mean one thing.
They've added speech to Clippy

[AtW]

The EU data sharing issue really relates to data shared with the US and the demise of the Safe Harbour agreement.

With UK being out of EU that problem will also resurface.

[DaveB]

Seeing as many large international companies in the UK, including banks and building societies, route their Internet traffic via servers in places like Bulgaria I doubt if that will be any problem in practice.

Routing traffic is one thing, holding data is another entirely.

Bulgaria has actually implemented the EU Data Protection Directive anyway, so are regarded as providing protection at least equivalent to the DPA here, which is one of the criteria of the DPA for sharing data with other countries. The EU data sharing issue really relates to data shared with the US and the demise of the Safe Harbour agreement.

[AtW]

Seeing as many large international companies in the UK, including banks and building societies, route their Internet traffic via servers in places like Bulgaria I doubt if that will be any problem in practice.

And this is regulated by which EU law?

Internet routing can happen via Iran if they feel like playing with BGP.

Bulgaria is part of EU anyway, try harder.

[OwlHoot]

If UK is outside of EU then EU companies can't hold personal data of EU citizens here ...

Seeing as many large international companies in the UK, including banks and building societies, route their Internet traffic via servers in places like Bulgaria I doubt if that will be any problem in practice.

[Eirikur]

My previous client already decided to open a datacentre in Germany in stead of the UK back in July, because of the outcome of the Brexit referendum

[MrMarkyMark]

It wasn't fake news, a Microsoft manager did say they might shift operations, but the offficial company position is they haven't made a decision.

Brexit: Microsoft is latest major company to threaten to pull business from the UK | The Independent

It's pretty clear they're thinking about it.

Well done AtW, you got it right.

A Microsoft "Manager" eh?

A bit akin to relying on the gossip supplied by the cleaner

[AtW]

Well done AtW, you got it right.

If UK is outside of EU then EU companies can't hold personal data of EU citizens here unless UK gets to be part of EU-US Privacy shield framework, how long would that take to achieve?

[BlasterBates]

It wasn't fake news, a Microsoft manager did say they might shift operations, but the offficial company position is they haven't made a decision.

Brexit: Microsoft is latest major company to threaten to pull business from the UK | The Independent

It's pretty clear they're thinking about it.

Well done AtW, you got it right.