If you want to know more about the judgement and Standard Contract Clauses, the FAQ page on Schrems' site is a good start: https://noyb.eu/en/next-steps-users-faqs

While SCCs are not technically prohibited, any company handing over personal information (be it of customers or employees) in many cases can't in good faith enter in such an agreement.

Whether professional usage of Github and other SaaS services can be considered handing over personal information is left as an exercise to and headache of many European legal departments in the coming months.

So stop allowing US-resident employees access to EU, UK & Swiss data.

> In compliance with the new ruling, GitHub is now relying on SCCs to establish necessary data protection for all

That means: "our last industry hack, Privacy Shield Framework, was shot down for the second time, making it dangerous for us. Now we use the even more dubious one, until it is shot down too"

more on SCCs gaps: https://www.bclplaw.com/en-US/insights/gdpr-the-most-frequen...

Sounds more like GitHub is just "safeguarding" their own ass. What does "data protection" mean in this context? Protecting user data from the US Government? Strange article...

I feel Europe is hugely winning this fight because they are out-innovating American legislation.

Also, the EU is far more accepting of immigrants than the USA. They will probably be a way better position in the short future if the US continues as doing what it doing.

That's hilarious!!!

Out-innovating in legislation. Dude, there's a word for that, it's called "bureaucracy"

The results of said innovation can be seen at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...

Reverse sort by Government Expenditure of GDP (% of GDP) and find your innovative EU vampire economies clustered near the top.

Yes, that's why there are so many unicorns coming out of europe right now.

So unicorns are the most important thing here? Not how we safeguard the privacy of citizens?