Safe Harbour ruling
I haven't been able to find any discussion on here re the recent EU ruling invalidating the EU-US data transfer (Safe Harbour) agreement and wondered if anyone knows what the implications are for Linode customers.
Is all data of EU based customers stored solely on EU based machines with no backup to US datacentres?
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@Olderiswiser:
Is all data of EU based customers stored solely on EU based machines with no backup to US datacentres?
Your data stays within the facility you deploy your Linode. If you have a Linode in Frankfurt, and enable backups on that Linode, your backups reside in Frankfurt. Linode does not aggregate backups to a central facility.
This being said, EU customers are totally free to spin up a Linode in, say, Newark, and their data would be in Newark, not somewhere in Europe.
