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My startup has faced this issue -- but it's easily solved using American cloud providers (for example: AWS Ireland). But, frankly, I don't know how Amazon woul
by nostromo 13y ago
My startup has faced this issue -- but it's easily solved using American cloud providers (for example: AWS Ireland).
But, frankly, I don't know how Amazon would respond if they received a national security letter asking for data hosted by Amazon in Ireland.
It'd be nice to see a country take a very strong stand on data privacy. They could be to hosting servers what Switzerland is to hosting money.
- killerpopiller 13y agoThere are MLA, mutual legal assistance, which needs certain proof, and aim usually for foreign companies with data of interest to the US. Servers from companies with a US-based headquarter belong to our new overlord, the US gov. and can be owned with a FISA-warrant (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – FISA 1978/2008) garnished with a National Security Letter (NSL). We know that procedures from Microsoft U.K. head: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patriot-act-can-access-eu-based-cloud-data/11225 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patri...
- DuskStar 13y agoIf Amazon does their accounting the same way as Google/Facebook, then Amazon Ireland is likely their international HQ, and technically a different company than Amazon US. (For tax reasons; Ireland has a much lower corporate tax rate than the US) And so I would really expect them to follow Irish, not US, law.
- 7952 13y agoFor a European what actually is the advantage in using US AWS instead of Ireland? If you are serving the EU why would you add the additional latency?