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If you start behaving like that, expect foreign governments/clients to ban/boycott american providers.

If it were a real concern to anyone, the EU countries would have simply used their big stick and started banning Google and Microsoft from doing business until they cleaned up their acts.

And they'd have done it years ago.

As long as it's the US government violating your privacy, those EU countries are perfectly happy to see their data privacy laws neutered.



The situation is not immune to change. E.g. the election of Trump, and more specifically the executive order he passed calling for the stripping of any expectation of privacy for all foreigners may spur europeans to action.

At least currently, there seems to be a trend in the EU pleading to shield ourselves from US interference, and the tech cos are probably the obvious first target.




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