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I can relate to this sentiment. I would rather have seen they host it physically within the borders of the country, with a 'good' local hosting/cloud provider.

• sofixa 6y ago
  It's probably hosted in AWS' London region, so at least geographically it's within the borders of the country.
  • mshook 6y ago
    CLOUD Act makes that completely moot... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act Primarily the CLOUD Act amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil.
    • oyashirochama 6y ago
      The UK can do the same depending on situation to the US, granted the US can just ignore it if they really want to. Most modern countries have backdoor privacy systems, 5 eyes was literally designed for it since they can't spy on their own citizens, they have a group from another allied country do it and give them the info.
    • namdnay 6y ago
      https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/cloud-act/#:~:text=Does%20the%20CLOUD%20Act%20take,country's%20laws%20or%20national%20interests https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/cloud-act/#:~:text=Does%20.... I think that if the order is not legal in the UK, AWS doesn't have to comply with a US judge
• dividedbyzero 6y ago
  Are there any local cloud providers in Britain?