I'm surprised to see the focus on jurisdiction versus other more effective methods, like open-source encrypting locally prior to moving the data off-site. Key c

I'm surprised to see the focus on jurisdiction versus other more effective methods, like open-source encrypting locally prior to moving the data off-site. Key control and eliminating the need to trust third-parties is the way forward, not trusting that some government somewhere is going to follow the rules perfectly. This also has the added benefit of protecting against unauthorised third parties gaining access via back doors or hacking, etc. These ineffectual laws and regulations you warn about are already in place. That's a dead end. It is time for people and corporations to take charge and make their data safe before it leaves their control. We've seen this happen on a big scale with Google now supposedly encrypting data between data centers, and on a (much) smaller scale with people like me using EncFS to encrypt before moving online backups to Dropbox.