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If you start behaving like that, expect foreign governments/clients to ban/boycott american providers. Jurisdiction is an important concept, and if the america
by pyrale 10y ago
If you start behaving like that, expect foreign governments/clients to ban/boycott american providers.
Jurisdiction is an important concept, and if the american justice starts using the good economic position of its companies to bypass or expand its jurisdiction, it should be expected that the feedback will effect said economic position.
While this case seems to be a bit different from the Ms case, the court essentially orders a private entity to take action in a foreign country, something which it could not do itself. This seems wrong to me. Instead, the issue is probably that this info should probably not be foreign if the producers were domestic.
- WildUtah 10y agoIf you start behaving like that, expect foreign governments/clients to ban/boycott american providers. If it were a real concern to anyone, the EU countries would have simply used their big stick and started banning Google and Microsoft from doing business until they cleaned up their acts. And they'd have done it years ago. As long as it's the US government violating your privacy, those EU countries are perfectly happy to see their data privacy laws neutered.
- pyrale 10y agoThe situation is not immune to change. E.g. the election of Trump, and more specifically the executive order he passed calling for the stripping of any expectation of privacy for all foreigners may spur europeans to action. At least currently, there seems to be a trend in the EU pleading to shield ourselves from US interference, and the tech cos are probably the obvious first target.
- herbst 10y agoPeople do that. I have several clients that _can_, by company policy, use services in pretty much any european country but nothing that has a headquarter in the U.S. sometimes a official U.S. brunch is already enough to make it a nogo.