UpScrolled, the Palestinian-founded social media app that ballooned in user numbers this year, is storing and processing its data in Ireland as the company tries to put more distance between itself and US tech. The company has moved its headquarters from Australia to the EU, according to updates to its privacy policy on May 30. It outlines that the company is now headquartered in the Netherlands but it processes and stores information on servers located in Ireland. “Our data has been hosted in Ireland since day one and remains there by design,” UpScrolled chief executive Issam Hijazi told The Currency.…

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