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Dropbox Moves Accounts Outside North America To Ireland

Posted by timothy on from the which-is-technically-outside-of-north-america dept.

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.

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  1. Not what you think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This has nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with taxes.

  2. It's not the NSA they're fleeing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The NSA knows no boundaries and arguably has MORE reach outside the USA.
    Companies are fleeing the US courts, following the ruling that a company with offices in the USA (i.e. Microsoft) can be compelled to produce digital evidence stored outside the USA.

  3. NSA jurisdiction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    and the jurisdiction of the NSA

    Actually, the rest of the world is the jurisdiction of the NSA. It's mission is to gather signals intelligence from foreign countries. If there is a jurisdiction that is off-limits to the NSA, its the US. That's why recently a US Appellate Court ruled that the NSA's wholesale spying on US citizens' phone communications is illegal. Besides, there's the British GCHQ that will be glad to spy on Dropbox and share what it gathers with the other Five-Eyes members.

    What this does for Dropbox is provide a tax haven for it, and to make it difficult for US law enforcement to serve warrants to produce evidence for Dropbox's users it suspects of criminal actions like pedophiles, copyright fraudsters, drug traffickers, etc.

  4. not outside the jurisdiction of the NSA by ron_ivi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's not a security move

    It's also not outside the jurisdiction of the NSA.

    Recall that the NSA is a DoD sub-agency --- so is quite restriced from spying on US Citizens inside the US. However DoD intel agencies are much more free to spy on international -- in fact, it's their main job.

    It seems to me this moves it INSIDE the jurisdiction of the NSA.