[governance] FW: Data stored overseas should be accessible to US government, judge rules — RT USA

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Yes of course except for the additional services such as disaster recovery, 
security, identity management and such

It also speaks volumes for businesses that they are willing to challenge 
requests for offshore data in court.



On 1 August 2014 8:14:59 pm "Peter H. Hellmonds" 
<peter.hellmonds at hellmonds.eu> wrote:

> No, not a nail in cloud services per se, but just another narrow-sighted 
> decision that will hurt US-based business interests and by extension US 
> public policy interests. It will be just another sign for European 
> companies that they cannot entrust their corporate data to cloud services 
> of companies that are US-based or otherwise subject to US jurisdiction. I'm 
> pretty sure you don't need RT (Russia Today) for that insight as I'm sure 
> the Wall Street Journal and Forbes will already be blowing in the same 
> horn, just as US businesses are. The big winners will be companies that are 
> in "secure" locations, such as Switzerland, and which have little to no 
> connections and business interests in the US. I read recently that one such 
> Swiss cloud service has seen its business double after the Snowden revelations.
>
> Btw, there are open source cloud servers available that you can install in 
> a self-hosted environment, either at home or at your favorite non-US ISP 
> Webspace, depending on your bandwidth and security/privacy needs. ;-)
>
> On 01 Aug 2014, at 16:16, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://rt.com/usa/177104-microsoft-preska-ireland-server/
>
> Another nail in the coffin for "the cloud" and more...?
>
> M
>
>
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