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Ask HN: Post PRISM - Any companies considering moving their data overseas?
- bifrost 13y agoI work with companies that do this pretty regularly due to other regulatory issues. The problem involves how poor data privacy laws are in other countries, in some places data is more illegal than others, and then how its accessed from the US. Sometimes you're not better off in other countries anyways. Right now the problem is "the cloud" not the country for the US anyways...
- jayfuerstenberg 13y agoI've always been surprised so many companies have their servers based in the USA. Iceland seems a safer place to me from a democracy standpoint.
- lawnchair_larry 13y agoTo where? Anything overseas is stated as fair game for the NSA. They at least pretend to not watch American activity. Any other country will cave to US pressure if they want your data, and of the countries that don't like the US and still have a decent internet connection, they'll probably do worse spying of their own.
- marquis 13y agoThe main issue is latency and cost. Try browsing the internet from New Zealand or Australia for a few weeks: you really notice the difference of being another 150-200ms away from servers in the U.S. If you'd like to host in those countries directly you'll be subject to higher bandwidth costs.