If Dropbox wants to do serious business in Europe, establishing regional data centers is a necessity because of the strict compliance regulations there, said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT. The most satisfying checkbox (andy.works) 484 points by feross 15 hours ago hide 214 comments: 3. Show HN: A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model () 449 points by BenoitEssiambre 9 hours ago hide 191 comments: 2. Seventy-five percent of its users are outside the U.S., Hansen said, including “tens of thousands of European companies.” Sharing activity in the region increased 200 percent this year, he said. Hacker News new past comments ask show jobs submit: login: 1. That agreement had ensured EU-level protection for European data processed in the U.S., so its defeat left numerous companies floundering.įor Dropbox, the pressure is surely significant. Since the EU’s top court struck down of the Safe Harbor Agreement in October, however, it’s become a hot-button issue.
Amazon and Microsoft are also among the cloud providers racing to offer new European storage options for customers worried about data sovereignty, or the question of which country has jurisdiction over the data.ĭata sovereignty has long been a key concern for companies in Europe because of the region’s strict data-protection laws.
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