Christian Knaut

I run explicare, a GDPR-compliant transcription tool in Germany, so this tension is basically my day job. I want to open it up as a discussion rather than push a conclusion.

Here's the practical reality for a European company. Most of the best speech and AI services run on US infrastructure. The moment audio, transcripts, or personal data leave the EU and land on a US server, you're in GDPR territory: lawful basis, transfer mechanism, sub-processors, all of it. For many of our enterprise and public-sector users, that alone rules out half the market before accuracy or price even come up.

The legal ground keeps moving, too. The EU-US Data Privacy Framework is still valid today, but a French challenge is now pending at the European Court of Justice, and a US Supreme Court ruling this June, plus the oversight board (PCLOB) losing quorum, have weakened the exact safeguards the framework was built on. A "Schrems III" case is widely expected. If you plan a product roadmap around that, you're building on sand.

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