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[U.S.] CLOUD Act now law, gives investigators more access to online data stored overseas
Passed as part of the federal spending bill, the law has privacy advocates concerned. By Laura Hautala.
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Interesting read. From what I can gather from reading the article, this would affect US companies who have data stored on servers overseas. However, this would not affect overseas companies. So privacy-conscious people could choose to use non-US email providers, web hosts, etc etc. I feel that countries with strong privacy laws like Norway are well-positioned to take advantage of an increase in business from privacy-conscious consumers in the US.
How’s that?