(Following up to myself, since the edit link has expired.) After some more digging, I found a few relevant links, the most direct of which is [1]. A number of

(Following up to myself, since the edit link has expired.) After some more digging, I found a few relevant links, the most direct of which is [1]. A number of other articles re-hashed the same points described there, but I did find a few like [2], which also describe Iceland's connectivity -- it's far better than I'd thought. As of a year ago, they had on the order of 8 tbps in undersea cables, stable ping times of around 100ms to the US (and, presumably to the EU, if not better), 100% geothermal power, and a climate that would enable passively cooled data centers. I couldn't find anything directly relevant to whether access logs would be subpoena-able, but the reading I get from what I did find is that their focus is more on being a transparency haven than a privacy such. Whistleblowers, journalists, and their sources are clearly very well protected by the IMMI (which appears to have passed unanimously). It's also, however, explicitly stated that the new law won't change anything in the current law WRT child pornography and copyright infringement, usually the big bugaboos of the "we need to control the interwebs" crowd. (Not to say those aren't problems; they just aren't the problems they're usually made out to be.) So, net, I'm not sure Iceland's the answer to these kinds of shenanigans, but it's clearly a step in the right direction. [1] http://immi.is/?l=en&p=intro http://immi.is/?l=en&p=intro [2] http://www.technewsdaily.com/iceland-promoted-as-future-data-haven-0225/ http://www.technewsdaily.com/iceland-promoted-as-future-data... (EDIT: fugly run-on sentence.)