Why we built EU-native time tracking (and what Schrems II has to do with it) (opens in new tab)

In 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the EU–US Privacy Shield. The ruling — known as Schrems II — declared that US surveillance law makes it impossible for US companies to guarantee the privacy of EU citizens' data, even if that data is stored "in Europe." Most SaaS founders in the US probably shrugged. Most EU agency owners probably didn't notice at all. But the implications were significant: transferring personal data to a US-based processor became legally risky, ...