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Re:Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of Nor... by bigiain on Saturday May 02, 2015 @02:17AM (#9476089)
But since Amazon has offices in the USA, the NSA considers all AWS hosted data in whatever country the Amazon operated data center is located in, to be under US jurisdiction.

I had a client who pulled all their (encrypted) data off the Ninefold cloud (Ninefold were at the time a fully Australian owned and hosted company) when they leased data center space and opened an office in CA – due to data sovereignty concerns.

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Re:Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of Nor... by notatoad on Saturday May 02, 2015 @02:53AM (#9476157)
Isn't Dropbox also entirely aws-hosted?
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Re:Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of Nor... by bigiain on Saturday May 02, 2015 @05:43AM (#9476484)
Yep, and has exactly the same "company officers residing in the US" exposure to the NSA and any of the agencies fighting the war on [drugs|terrorism|pedos|political-rivals] getting closed or open court warrants with or without gag orders.

In fact Dropbox is doubly at risk, law enforcement or national security could target either (or both) Dropbox themselves - go straight to Amazon to get access at hypervisor level to their entire infrastructure.

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