Dan Shearer: “EU privacy laws are much stricter than US laws, and temporary fixes to bridge the gap are not looking credible. Ultimately, American companies must obey US law, not EU law. ”
The whitepaper covers the collapse of privacy agreements between the US and EU over a period of years, explains why the Privacy Shield is collapsing, the EU’s Single Digital Market vision leading to the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, and the need for EU-controllable and EU-based replacements to US cloud services.
Kopano also interviewed Arnoud Engelfriet, ICT lawyer, specialized in internet law. He explained the (potential) legal consequences of the GDPR for US cloud providers, their European counterparts and European companies who make use of US clouds.
Arnoud Engelfriet: “The GDPR is going to change a lot of things in Europe. Not only will it broaden the concept of personal data significantly, it will also introduce a lot of new compliance rules companies will have to take into account. I think it is important people are aware of this.”
“As a vendor of a self-hosted open source solution we get a lot of questions from people about data privacy and GDPR,” says Brian Joseph, CEO of Kopano. “We are therefore very happy that Dan and Arnoud were willing to give us their expert views on these topics and hope their knowledge will help companies become more aware of the issues surrounding GDPR and data privacy.”
The whitepaper can be downloaded at https://kopano.com/…
The video can be watched at https://kopano.com/…
Kopano is a fork of Zarafa which is a groupware which has made Linux compatible for Outlook. Many former employees of Zarafa now work for Kopano in Delft, Hannover and Plochingen. They develop new apps and integrations, which enable communication that goes further than emails.
The base of the system are any Kopano Core server which can be operated on premise, hybrid or in private cloud setups. Kopano users work with Kopano DeskApp under Windows, macOS or Linux which combines in one single app functions of Microsoft Outlook, videotelephony, chat and much more. Almost all of these functions are also available in the Kopano WebApp in the internet browsers.
Moreover Kopano is the main contributor of Z-Push project which implements the Exchange Active Sync (EAS) in open source. That is how ActiveSync devices like smartphones, tablets or Microsoft Outlook (in version 2013 and higher) are connected to the server. KOE expands Outlook by group-functionalities.
The source code of all components is available underhttps://stash.kopano.io. Customers of Kopano get access to latest packages that have gone through a quality assurance process..
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