Reply to post: Re: The solution is simple.

Re: The solution is simple.

@LDS

"US should do like any other authoritarian regime did: make sure data of its citizens are only stored on servers on US soil."

But, with respect, the situation is often not that simple.

For example, the Irish case involved email. So let's say I live in Germany (I don't :-P), and you live in the US, and we have email between us. Are we not then _both_ parties to the data? So should it be stored on US soil, because you're from the US, or European soil, because I'm from Germany? The same logic can be applied to sales records - if you are the US vendor, and I am the German purchaser. The data may well contain 'personal information' on both of us. Where to store it? Well, I'd bet whichever choice you make would potentially be wrong from one of our perspectives. And duplicating it, storing it in _both_ countries, just makes matters worse - at least, so I'd suggest. Of course, I'm an Idiot... (blush).