> US consider itself “owner” Well, I work most days in San Mateo, California, but 15% of the data we store for customers ALREADY comes from the EU, and more fr

> US consider itself “owner” Well, I work most days in San Mateo, California, but 15% of the data we store for customers ALREADY comes from the EU, and more from other countries. Backblaze fully complies with all EU laws already, such as collecting VAT and passing that money through to EU countries. Philosophically, we feel the data belongs to the customer, but we comply with all laws in that customer’s country. For the Backblaze Personal Backup product this was easiest, since it is encrypted on the customer machine before being sent. For B2 (our object storage product like Amazon S3) it got much more complicated because for the first time customers can configure it to be a publically accessible web host, so Backblaze sometimes gets served with takedown notices due to illegal content hosting. We ABSOLUTELY comply with standard procedures the same as Amazon S3 must. Backblaze is not some crazy safe harbor for criminals hosting stolen movies. With that said, if you encrypt the data before it leaves your computer and store it in a private bucket, Backblaze has no possible way to know your file contents and we do not want to know. And we would have no way of handing that over to the US government (or the EU) even if they demanded it.