IMHO, the story is 90% politics. To Americans, it is a politics-as-usual discussion. To the rest of the world, however, there has to be a strong question as to

IMHO, the story is 90% politics. To Americans, it is a politics-as-usual discussion. To the rest of the world, however, there has to be a strong question as to how rational it is to federate much of the world's data to American corporations that fall under the realm of American intelligence and legal purview. This is going to have much broader influence on the data practices of multinational organizations.