Google.com and google.co.uk OT

Caspar Bowden ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:20:50 +0000


>From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.=
greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of Dominic Hargreaves

>> I imagine google.co.uk is an EU subsidiary of google.com, and would
>> comply with EU data protection laws (but see

>Nope, google.com and google.co.uk both only point to IP addresses in the
>US - I am fairly sure they don't run two separate instances of their
>platform for any sort of EU/US separation in the sense you're assuming.

See http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/news/docs/pr_18_19_02_08_e=
n.pdf

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Caspar Bowden