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Something I meant to add to the EU issues with US cloud services discussion. It’s of little real use to prevent private data getting into the hands of folks like the NSA when we still use proprietary US software vendors products like Windows and OSX to create and manipulate the data in the first place.
Who knows what backdoors are in those? All you have is the word of the companies PR departments, and US companies are ordered to comply and lie about it, under the Patriot Act.