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Given the tepid reaction (or tacit endorsement) of Europe to the spying revelations, I'm not sure what country to put trust in for cloud services or hosting.

• altero 13y ago
  Germany and Switzerland seems like a good choice.
  • igravious 13y ago
    Or wherever The Pirate Bay or Wikileaks or others of their ilk host their servers I would imagine. Sweden[1] it seems? "According to Assange, Switzerland and Iceland are the only countries where WikiLeaks would be safe to operate." I wouldn't be too sure about Germany at all. Switzerland because of it's historic neutrality and rule of law makes sense. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pionen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pionen
    • altero 13y ago
      Iceland is too small and I bet most of its trafic goes via US or UK. Germany has strong privacy protection laws thanks to its history.
  • th0br0 13y ago
    There's actually a strong cooperation going on between the BND (German foreign intelligence service) and the NSA, with the NSA praising the BND as key partners and other fancy things. [1] So sadly, there isn't truly any "safe" country out there for hosting your data... Sweden's military tends to track all border-crossing network connections, the BND seems to be listening at DE-CIX... Also, I'm sure that Switzerland routes their data through some internet exchange node that some NSA-friendly intelligence agency listens at. In terms of data protection laws & how much access to your actual servers the authorities get, I believe that German & Swiss laws are quite good though. [1] http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fdeutschland%2Fbnd-und-bfv-setzen-nsa-spaehprogramm-xkeyscore-ein-a-912196.html http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...