German government cancels Verizon contract in wake of U.S. spying row

Re:German government cancels Verizon contract in wake of U.S... by jobu on Thursday June 26, 2014 @07:33PM (#7952069)

"The U.S. government cannot compel us to produce our customers' data stored in data centres outside the U.S., and if it attempts to do so, we would challenge that attempt in a court."

Except that it would happen in a secret FISA court, and it's likely Verizon wouldn't be allowed to reveal the status or outcome of that trial.

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Re:German government cancels Verizon contract in wake of U.S... by Maxious on Thursday June 26, 2014 @09:01PM (#7952326)

Vodafone acknowledge that management and legal have no idea what these secret requests are and what pressure is placed employees who push back on governments requests when they violate their internal code of conduct, "Obligations on individual employees managing agency and authority demands" http://www.vodafone.com/content/sustainabilityreport/2014/in...

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Re:German government cancels Verizon contract in wake of U.S... by contingencies on Friday June 27, 2014 @01:14AM (#7952816)

Amdocs knows Vodafone very well - Friedrich Joussen, Chief Executive Officer, Vodafone Deutschland. http://www.amdocs.com/About/Success/Pages/Vodafone-Germany.a...

Vodafone uses Amdocs in many of their national operations... see discussion in other threads beneath this post. In short, Amdocs stuff is assumed to be always-on metadata access rather than by-request content level.

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