Data Access Restrictions in the USA for Wasabi Users
- 14 Feb 2024
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Data Access Restrictions in the USA for Wasabi Users
- Updated on 14 Feb 2024
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Wasabi is a based in the United States. Its G&A function, including administrative and support functions, is predominately based out of the United States. In the course of providing and assisting with the services, Wasabi may access or process a customers’ data from the United States. This includes information related to usage of the service, data necessary for billing or account-related communications, or data related to troubleshooting or support activities. However, Wasabi does not access a customer’s content uploaded to a bucket in order to provide services. However, certain employees, including those in the support team, may have access to certain metadata about the content stored in a bucket, such as the size of object files.
Wasabi prioritizes the protection of customer privacy and ensures that customer data is not voluntarily disclosed to law enforcement. Wasabi encrypts customer content at rest to prevent unauthorized access. However, Wasabi is obliged to comply with United States law. In response to the Schrems II decision, United States President Biden signed an Executive Order on October 7, 2022, which includes further safeguards limiting access to data by United States intelligence agencies. Law enforcement requests are likely to be very uncommon, but if such a request is received, Wasabi will challenge any legal request it believes is improper and / or seek to have the request made directly to you. Only if required by law will Wasabi provide the limited information it has access to. Unless prohibited from doing so, Wasabi will notify you of any such request. Customers have the option to encrypt their content before uploading it to the services, in which case Wasabi will not have access to it, even if compelled.
Note: The European Commission is in the process of adopting an adequacy decision for the United States. For more detail, review Data protection: Commission starts process to adopt adequacy decision for safe data flows with the US.
In the meantime, Wasabi continues to offer the use of SCCs to support the lawful cross-border transfer.
