The legal situation in Norway is... in flux at the moment. The Snowden revelations might stop information sharing from coming in, but Norway is looking like le

The legal situation in Norway is... in flux at the moment. The Snowden revelations might stop information sharing from coming in, but Norway is looking like leapfrogging Australia pretty much with data retention (along with much of Europe): http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/updated-parliament-passes-data-retention-directive/ http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/updated-parliament-passes-... Norway isn't some magical safe haven from legal data requests. We receive law enforcement requests through the Norwegian system for mail.opera.com users (which, despite running on the same infrastructure, is operated under Norwegian law, not Australian - isn't life complex) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retenti... tells a few interesting stories. Australian law may indeed change, and we'll be compelled to update our policies to match. So far, we've avoided it. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/government-shelves-controversial-data-retention-scheme-20130624-2oskq.html http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/government-...