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Re:Switching from Gmail to FastMail by nly on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:02AM (#6070186)
You're naive if you think hosting in Europe means you're necessarily any safer.
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Re:Switching from Gmail to FastMail by tomp on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:12AM (#6070243)
For (European) businesses, it's not the issue of safety, but the issue of compliance. If I (EU citizen) have personal data with EU company that stores said data on US-controlled servers, they are potentially viable for breach of data-protection laws. Since these laws are EU laws, it wouldn't be a problem if EU governments would read this data, since that's governed by the same set of laws.
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Re:Switching from Gmail to FastMail by steveklabnik on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:27AM (#6070354)
It doesn't matter if clients are naive or not, it matters if they have a checkbook.
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Re:Switching from Gmail to FastMail by iandundas on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:31AM (#6070377)
Well that's how it would seem, in the wake of the Snowden revelations.
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