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Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-data-is-safe-except-from-us dept.

Harperdog writes "Politico has a piece on how the Patriot Act is interfering with U.S. firms trying to do business overseas in the area of cloud computing. Here's a quote: 'The Sept. 11-era law was supposed to help the intelligence community gather data on suspected terrorists. But competitors overseas are using it as a way to discourage foreign countries from signing on with U.S. cloud computing providers like Google and Microsoft: Put your data on a U.S.-based cloud, they warn, and you may just put it in the hands of the U.S. government.'"

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  1. You F41l It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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