> It's a reasonable presumption that the origin of most of that data is foreign. I think that statement is false. Since it's known that google, yahoo and basic

> It's a reasonable presumption that the origin of most of that data is foreign. I think that statement is false. Since it's known that google, yahoo and basically all major players mirror data from one data center to others to protect themselves from outages, a reasonable assumption from the technical side is that a large chunk of the data is actually American and that there is no way to figure out the nationality of the bits you're collecting. It reeks of trying to circumvent the restrictions that apply to data collection on american soil. That may still be legal by the letter of the law (all american data collected is just "bycatch"), but I doubt it's unintentional.