You may have no problems with these things. I'm not a US citizen and these things do matter in my decision to host my data in the US. These problems are not new. The US never had a strong privacy law.
Taken all this into account it's hard sell for any business outside of the US to use US based cloud services. That's all I wanted to illustrate.
Yes there are FISA warrants. If you are this paranoid that your data is this sensitive you shouldn't even be thinking about keeping your data anywhere else besides your locked down datacenter that you alone have access to.
What I am stating above is, NSA revelations or not hosting your data with a 3rd party is an obviously inherent risk.
Where is the hyperbole? http://www.theguardian.com/world/the-nsa-files
> secret courts or any other silly end of the world predictions
As far as I know this is unfortunately not a prediction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellige...
You may have no problems with these things. I'm not a US citizen and these things do matter in my decision to host my data in the US. These problems are not new. The US never had a strong privacy law.
Taken all this into account it's hard sell for any business outside of the US to use US based cloud services. That's all I wanted to illustrate.