>We should be wary of companies who can't even guarantee our data is remaining within the boundaries of our own laws. Global companies cannot always guarantee

>We should be wary of companies who can't even guarantee our data is remaining within the boundaries of our own laws. Global companies cannot always guarantee that because they operate under a large number of sometimes contradictory laws that keep changing all the time. Also, if you consider a web app that lets users communicate with each other then the jurisdictions involved might be all of the following: 1) The web site owner's jurisdiction. 2) The hosting firm's jurisdiction. 3) The jursidiction of every single user. And all of these jurisdictions may have agreements governing data exchange and law enforcement. This is bound to be extremely complicated.