It's a fairly natural privacy issue. The EU DPD has some fairly clear rules about automated gathering of information about people, the rules under which you are required to honor requests for reports about that data, to update it if so required and to be deleted at the first request.
Google is side-stepping the reach of the EU by keeping the data on servers outside of the EU but this goes against the spirit of those laws, it is about the citizens not about where the data resides.
Google is side-stepping the reach of the EU by keeping the data on servers outside of the EU but this goes against the spirit of those laws, it is about the citizens not about where the data resides.