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Today's victory by Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems in the European Court has massive repercussions for how the superpowers make law, and how Silicon Valley conducts business. And it may only get worse for America's data processing giants, very soon. Microsoft is challenging the notion that the world's data is by default …

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    'Anonymous' Cowards - are you sure?

    Netcraft informs me that TheRegister's website is hosted in the USA.

    Anonymous Cowards about Snowdenesque articles take note.

    Oh, hang on...

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      Re: 'Anonymous' Cowards - are you sure?

      Our website is hosted by Peer 1 in Portsmouth. Not sure what Netcraft is picking up there - although we do use Cloudflare as our CDN - and it has data centres everywhere.

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        Re: 'Anonymous' Cowards - are you sure?

        Whoops - one's bad...

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        Re: 'Anonymous' Cowards - are you sure?

        - although we do use Cloudflare as our CDN -

        So I noticed. Yesterday it told me it could not resolve forums.theregister.co.uk (that is AFTER I posted something), and I presume this is the thing that keeps popping up CAPTCHAs as well.

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  2. JennyZ

    Bring back Minitel, as always, the French have the solution to Europe's problems...

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