Replying to Google Hands European User Data to US Intelligence

What is it with that goddamn Patriot Act that somehow seems to affect even people and businesses who don't believe in having their privacy and personal data compromised and are certainly not citizens of a country that upholds such a travesty?

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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Admits-Handing-over-European-User-Data-to-US-Intelligence-Agencies-215740.shtml

"Google has admitted complying with requests from US intelligence agencies for data stored in its European data centers, most likely in violation of European Union data protection laws.

At the center of this problem is the USA PATRIOT ACT, which states that companies incorporated in the United States (e.g. Microsoft, Google, Amazon) must hand over data administered by their foreign subsidiaries if requested. Not only that, but they can be forced to keep quiet about it in order to avoid exposing active investigations and alert those targeted by the probes."




This compromises not only personal data, but business data as well. It's already causing an uproar here and some companies are thinking of withdrawing their technological assets and services away from US-based companies.


Get your shit together.