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Twitter moves non-US accounts to Ireland away from the NSA
- higherpurpose 12y agoIreland? Then I have a feeling this isn't the only reason they are choosing Ireland. They are possibly going there because of lower taxes as well or maybe the ability to poach some Google or Apple engineers there. Switzerland, Iceland or even Germany would've probably been better for non-abusive warrants purposes.
- adzicg 12y agothe article suggests that weak privacy laws in Ireland allow them to sell more data to advertisers
- rdsnsca 12y agoThat makes sense because it won't keep the NSA from demanding the data.
- tobylane 12y agoI think they were there because of low taxes, then when they wanted a base out of the US it was the first option.
- pixelcort 12y agoA few years ago I moved from the U.S. to Japan. How does Twitter identify which users go to which location?
- a3n 12y agoWhy not cut to the chase and put all accounts outside the US? Yes, the NSA will still get the data, possibly even easier since there's no fig-leaf of asking for or nsl-ing data outside the US. But at least the NSA would have to live and work in a slow moving scandal.