https://sovereignshift.eu/tags/data-privacy/ Recent content in Data Privacy on Sovereign Shift Hugo en Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sovereignshift.eu/blog/the-future-of-digital-transformation/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sovereignshift.eu/blog/the-future-of-digital-transformation/ <p>The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act), signed into US law on 23 March 2018, creates a legal obligation that directly conflicts with the EU&rsquo;s General Data Protection Regulation. This is not a matter of interpretation. The two laws impose contradictory requirements on the same data, and no contractual mechanism available today fully resolves the conflict.</p> <p>European organisations using Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, AWS, or any service operated by a US-headquartered company need to understand this conflict in concrete terms, not as a theoretical privacy concern but as a legal exposure that affects their GDPR compliance posture.</p>