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> I feel I should bring up that in the EU there almost exists two worlds when it comes to GDPR: Germany - and the rest of the countries.

Well, Germany isn't the country that made Google Analytics illegal. Other countries do care.

> Nobody had any problem with AWS, or really any non-EU vendor, as long as they lived up to the GRPR agreements and could provide the usual agreements.

I was in charge of the tech for a massive man in the middle company in Germany where we integrated with lots of companies to provide data for other companies. Noone had an issue with AWS because they were all using it. It's consumers who care and consumers who will make reports and it's companies that will pay the fine.



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