Every Meta Pixel, GA4 tag, and Klaviyo embed on a WooCommerce store sends EU visitor data to US servers — and the legal mechanism keeping that legal is the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which rests on a single claim: that the US Data Protection Review Court is structurally independent of the executive branch. Trump v. … Read more
Every time your team pastes a client’s analytics export into ChatGPT, that data crosses at least one international border. Under GDPR Articles 28 and 46, every cloud AI API call is a potential cross-border data transfer — triggering processor obligations your agency almost certainly hasn’t formalised. The maximum fine for getting this wrong is 4% … Read more
When you paste client marketing data into ChatGPT or Claude, that data travels to a server you don’t control, is processed by infrastructure owned by a third party, and — depending on your settings — may be retained for model improvement. Under GDPR Article 25, that’s not a workflow problem. It’s an architectural one. Article … Read more
Meta was fined €1.2 billion in May 2023 for transferring EU user data to US servers — the largest single GDPR fine in history (Irish Data Protection Commission, 2023). The fine wasn’t about consent banners. It was about the legal mechanism governing transfers from an EU user’s browser to a US server — the exact … Read more
