European alternatives to Eventbrite

A ticketing and event-registration platform for everything from meetups to festivals. A publicly-traded US company on AWS, under US jurisdiction.

Company information about Eventbrite
Company
Eventbrite Inc.
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2006
Data jurisdiction
United States
Ownership
Publicly traded
GDPR
No
Open source
No
Infrastructure
Amazon AWS

Why people switch away from Eventbrite

Subject to US CLOUD ActProfit-driven (public markets)Proprietary softwareRuns on Big Tech infrastructureNot covered by GDPR

European alternatives to Eventbrite

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France 92 · Certified European

French open-source federated event platform originally created by Framasoft and now maintained by French non-profit Kaihuri. Organise events and groups without ads, tracking, or data exploitation. Federated via ActivityPub: host your own instance or join an existing one.

Free · from Free Free tier Open source Non-profit Hetzner (Germany) EU

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Why avoid United States-owned services?

CLOUD Act

Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.

FISA Section 702

Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.

GDPR vs US law conflict

EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.

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