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I have a dropbox professional.
Is it possible to transfer my files to a server located in EU?
Not with Professional, no. That is something you can only do with a Business licence holding at least 10 seats: https://help.dropbox.com/accounts-billing/security/physical-location-data-storage
- Mark
Super User II
Not with Professional, no. That is something you can only do with a Business licence holding at least 10 seats: https://help.dropbox.com/accounts-billing/security/physical-location-data-storage
I wonder how much of their users are businesses with more than 10 seats, as I understand its common for established business to target bigger, high value accounts with age, but isn't Dropbox's whole value proposition to make it easy for individuals, contractors, freelancers, outsourced teams to all collaborate? With non-US users already agreed to T&Cs for storage in the US it seems an unhelpful way to handle their (if not yet regulatory) moral obligation for EU data sovereignty.
Strategically it has a sense of anti-unionist capitalism, whereas tactically, it reads like juvenile irresponsibility.
Tell me Mark (individual community member), what benefit does this offer afford yourself? If none, I propose your answer is void, as the solution is fundamentally unacceptable.
Why?
GDPR applies to individuals and businesses, why can't individuals also have the protections that the EU citizens are entitled to?
GDPR does say that transfers of EU Citizens data outside of the EU and EEA is prohibited unless an adequate safeguard can be used. Each time the EU Commission agree a data sharing agreement with the US, i.e. EU-US Privacy Shield (Schrems I & II) , and when it is tested in the European Court of Justice conclude that the US data protection laws are essentially NOT equally good as the GDPR, specifically the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702, Executive Order 12333 and Presidential Policy Directive 28 and the Privacy Shield ombudsman does not have the power to adopt decisions that would be binding on US intelligence services.
How therefore can you say that data that is moved to the US from the EU is fully GDPR protected for individuals?
Hello @Dropbox or SuperUser(s),
So to be able to have data stored (or moved) on/to European servers, you need:
- business-licence (standard, etc)
- at least 10 users
Is that correct?
Another question: although, if as a company you do not meet these requirements on licencing, the GDPR is still applicable if the data is stored on US-servers, correct?
Best regards,
Yannic
No, a European server would not be acceptable. Data belonging to non-profit societies (and some other companies) must be stored in Canada and must not travel through any server located outside of Canada. GDPR doesn't enter into this requirement.
