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I really like fastmail as a service and business. It's being subject to Australian data laws that gives me pause. That's significant competitive disadvantage f
by unyttigfjelltol 5y ago
I really like fastmail as a service and business. It's being subject to Australian data laws that gives me pause. That's significant competitive disadvantage for fastmail when marketing internationally to privacy-conscious users.[1]
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_Australia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_Austral...
- fragmede 5y agoWhich countries do you recommend using a similar service from? (And what are those services called?) OpSec is hard and sometimes you really do need perfect and not "good enough", but, like PGP, there need to actually be viable alternatives available today that you can make a recommendation for, unless you're just concern trolling. (Five Eyes countries are right out, fwiw.)
- unyttigfjelltol 5y agoMaybe! But here's the rub-- a US person has some legal protection against surveillance directly by the US, in the US, but (maybe?) none against Australia, for data processed in country or by Australians. Australia then (maybe?) has no safeguards against sharing their surveillance of US persons back to the US. It's a legal and bureaucratic not technical puzzle. I wouldn't believe any comfort statement on the point either. This sequence isn't a bug, it's a feature of the Five Eyes configuration.
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