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Re:Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM by realo on Saturday June 08, 2013 @08:10AM (#5844660)
That, exactly.

Google, Apple, Facebook and friends go to great lengths to evade taxes. When it comes to tax matters, those companies have no hesitation to use all the tricks available to a trans-national company. And they pay very smart people to invent schemes that ensure a maximum amount of money is kept out of the US IRS hands.

If Google, Facebook and friends were truly serious about protecting their users' privacy, they would. They would pay very smart people to invent schemes that ensure a maximum amount of user data is kept out of the US NSA hands.

But they don't.

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Re:Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM by agilebyte on Saturday June 08, 2013 @09:05AM (#5844777)
Maybe you can have one but not the other. These guys contract big consulting firms to be the middlemen between them and the government when it comes to tax laws. But I suspect you have to "give" something in return.
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Re:Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM by smtddr on Saturday June 08, 2013 @10:03AM (#5844888)
It's one thing to have a bankaccount in the Netherlands, that's easy. A whole data-center? A data-center with all the infrastructure to support it and employees and it still needs to be fast enough that we can't see a slowdown from moving it out of USA? That's a different undertaking.
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Re:Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM by aiiane on Saturday June 08, 2013 @10:42AM (#5844981)
Google actually has many data centers outside the US (in addition to those it has inside the US).
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Re:Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM by smtddr on Saturday June 08, 2013 @02:01PM (#5845642)
Yeah I know. To do what the parent comment is asking, there can't be any US data-centers. That's not realistic.
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Re:Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM by rachelbythebay on Saturday June 08, 2013 @03:12PM (#5845911)
What if I insinuated that certain multinational companies already choose which data centers get certain products due to tax reasons? As in, "product X can go into building #1 but not building #3, and product Y can go into #3 but not #1".
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