"It is crystal clear what corporations want in the Transatlantic trade agreement (TTIP) and the other treaties being negotiated: a commitment to allow cross border data flows and data-processing across all services sectors, including financial services, without any limitations. They consider requirements to use local network infrastructure or local servers as discriminatory, with potentially adverse effects on trade."
From 2014, http://www.zdnet.com/article/wikileaks-leak-shows-data-sover...
"50 countries including Australia and the US may be signing away rights to ensure sensitive customer data remains in its country of origin."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv...
Incidentally it's working out much cheaper, simpler with less API lock in than AWS was as our workloads are fairly predictable and we make a lot of money off it.
As long as the NSA is collaborating with GCHQ, it doesn't need to transfer anything outside of the EU. If anything, the intercepts provided by the UK government are subject to fewer safeguards than those gathered in domestic surveillance programs.
We already have to deal with the walled garden of China, are we seeing the beginnings of something similar with Europe?
Privacy is more important, anyway.
I'm not debating privacy btw, just the concern over operational cost. There are other ways to secure data that are far better than simple data residency laws.
Where I worked previously we included the geographic questions at the start of our standard RFI document. In asset least one case we had to drop the technically-best SaaS product because they only had data centers in France.
Even using Canadian or Australian data centers was often problematic. For employee data we could require that individual to provide consent for cross-border transfer as part of their contract but that wasn't possible for customers.
Wonder if she's based on Hubot, or something else entirely.
