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Dropbox Moves Accounts Outside North America To Ireland
monkeyzoo writes: Similar to a previous announcement by Twitter, Dropbox has changed its Terms of Service for users outside of North America (USA/Canada/Mexico) such that services will now be provided out of Ireland. Will other companies follow this trend and leave the USA (and the jurisdiction of the NSA)? Note, the announcement states that North American users are not able to opt into the Irish Terms of Service.
Just curious - what's the US's 51st State?
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
In other news, Amazon is renditioning its Cloud Drive servers to Guantanamo, because it's cheaper to comply with CIA/NSA requests from there (and it's technically not even a crime they said). And no-evil Google Drive is moving all its US cloud servers to Saudi Arabia, to save on air conditioning bills (the tax concessions they''ll be receiving are besides the point). It also helped in their decision that Saudi Arabia has a better track record than the Republic of Ireland on freedom of speech, where it comes to central banking and "too big to fail" government bailouts.