> Do you know what it is like to live in a jurisdiction where you are actually liable for what happens to the data of your users? No offense but it's this same

> Do you know what it is like to live in a jurisdiction where you are actually liable for what happens to the data of your users? No offense but it's this same reason that U.S. companies would be pilloried if they hosted all their users' private data on a cloud service hosted in Russia or China. Even without an entity like the NSA an organization in the EU could not simply assume that any other nation obeys their data privacy rules without a strong bilateral agreement dictating just that. That's not a consequence of the "recent scandal" as even now the scandal hasn't revealed anything with regard to non-U.S. networks that wasn't already known: the NSA intercepts communications abroad when they can, just as they've done since 1949. The NSA stories have certainly brought it to prominence but anyone hosting their user's private data on Amazon's US-EAST before this, without a guarantee that the U.S. would obey European data privacy laws at the Virginia data center, was guilty of negligence at best, since no such agreement has ever been made to my knowledge. What the NSA stories have helped to illustrate is that there is an essential disconnect between applying nation-level laws to global-level networks that needs to be rectified one way or another.