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EU, UK, and other international users' personal data is transferred to the United States and processed under US law, with GDPR protections maintained only through contractual safeguards that have faced legal challenge.
If you are in the EU, UK, or another region with strong privacy laws, your Slack data is transferred to the US and processed there — Slack uses SCCs as the legal mechanism, but US government access to data remains a residual risk.
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"The Services are hosted in the United States. If you choose to use the Services from regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you may be transferring your personal information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. We may transfer personal information to countries other than the country in which the data was originally collected. To the extent required, we rely on approved transfer mechanisms such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses to protect your personal information.— Excerpt from Slack's Slack Privacy Policy
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EU, UK, and other international users' personal data is transferred to the United States and processed under US law, with GDPR protections maintained only through contractual safeguards that have faced legal challenge.
If you are in the EU, UK, or another region with strong privacy laws, your Slack data is transferred to the US and processed there — Slack uses SCCs as the legal mechanism, but US government access to data remains a residual risk.
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