I hope this bites US cloud service providers hard. They need a strong blowback against their cowardly support for the Cloud Act in the US. Microsoft, for insta

I hope this bites US cloud service providers hard. They need a strong blowback against their cowardly support for the Cloud Act in the US. Microsoft, for instance, was suing the US government over its abusive NSL-enabled secret data requests, which made up almost half of the data requests the gov was making to Microsoft. But then Microsoft decided to drop the lawsuit and support the Cloud Act, which may have taken the actions of the US government from the shadows and into the light (somewhat), but it didn't really change the outcome of those actions. I imagine Microsoft and other cloud providers supported it because it gave them more legal cover. Well hopefully they'll live to regret that mistake with the EU blowback now. I also think it's just a matter of time (a year?) until the Privacy Shield will be invalidated by the top EU court, and then a new much stricter agreement will have to be made that will make all but impossible data transfers to the US. The EC is also to blame in this whole thing, because for some reason they decided to once again compromise with the US government on the type of EU-US data exchange deals they were making (which somehow always seem to go one way, from the EU to the US), because they gave the US gov the benefit of the doubt and thought the US gov would act in "good faith." Hopefully by now they've realized their error in thinking that.