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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by slg on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @02:42PM (#5863850)
I disagree that this is a problem limited to US companies. With the global nature of the tech industry, I think a product's or service's country of origin has seen a reduced importance over the years. I don't think the average consumer knows that Waze is based in Israel. I don't foresee anyone considering the NSA and choosing a Canadian designed Blackberry phone over a US designed Apple one. Instead I think this will just instill a general distrust of technology and the cloud. I doubt people will be discerning enough to focus their suspicions.
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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by witek on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @03:07PM (#5864021)
Yes and no. Example from the German government (10 Aug 2010):

"Germany's interior minister said that politicians and senior civil servants in government should avoid mobile devices such as the iPhone and the Blackberry, citing security risks and increasing hacker attacks. (...) ministers and senior civil servants have been told to rely on the German-made Simko2 gadgets, on advice from the German federal office for information security (BSI)."

http://digitaljournal.com/article/295798

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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by EthanHeilman on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @03:13PM (#5864056)
I think it will cause a deinternationalization of the technology industry since each government will want it's citizens to use local tech (if you think governments can't force this look at S. Korea and IE). US companies are some of the most international, so this will hurt US companies the most and it will reduce the margins of all the big players across the board (that is, short GOOG).
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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by cinquemb on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @03:39PM (#5864223)
Maybe corporations could go off the coast of nation states[0]… not that they will beyond the influence of them, but states may have no legal authority over them under those circumstances so they may have more freedom to be more transparent to the public because of their interests to their bottom lines.

[0]: http://www.seasteading.org/about/

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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by freyr on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @03:39PM (#5864225)
Without government intervention, I don't think this news will disrupt the habits of typical consumers. They'll continue using whatever is easy or the most popular.

Corporations that have a vested interest in providing security (or the illusion thereof) may reconsider cloud-hosted solutions. But that's probably a relatively small market.

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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by jim-greer on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @06:03PM (#5865001)
Agreed - the Netherlands is terrible, for instance. http://www.thehollandbureau.com/2010/03/07/the-netherlands-c...
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