Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 2, 2011 @08:10AM 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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I LOVE AMERICA! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2011-12-02 08:25 · Score: -1, Troll

Signed, the Necrophiliac.

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1. Re:I LOVE AMERICA! by CyberDong · 2011-12-02 08:35 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  I used to be a necrophiliac too.... but one day the rotten bitch split on me, and it was over.