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I'm not yet grasping what it means. I'm a lone developer targetting a B2B ecosystem made of 75% US, 15% EU. As far as I understand, the following activities are

• outside1234 11y ago
  I think its worse than that - one interpretation is that you can't use AWS _at all_ because it isn't wholly owned by an EU company.
• JupiterMoon 11y ago
  Time to write to your representative and complain that NSA activities are making your business suffer?
• GauntletWizard 11y ago
  Meanwhile, the EU countries have spying regimes of their own that are just as intrusive. They want EU citizen data on-shore so they can spy on it, not so that the US cannot. They've become the Iron Curtain. I'm not even certain I can blame the NSA. The Europeans have voted technological totalitarianism in. The EU Cookie law predates Snowden, and was a mild precursor of failures to come.
• kybernetyk 11y ago
  >If so, that's the strongest protectionism that EU startups could ever dream of... Sure, if you show me viable EU based alternatives to the services you mentioned. As a EU based developer I, too, am cooking with water - means I manage my mailing lists with MailChimp, use Google Apps for Email, use AWS, etc. There are just no EU based alternatives to these services. As usual when it comes to internet regulation by the EU: it's not really favourable for EU based companies (except the few ex state monopolists).