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tsai3904
09-04-2012, 12:26 PM
European Distrust of US Data Security Creates Market for Local Cloud Service

Concern in the European Union that U.S. data protection laws are too lax has created a new market for European cloud computing services.

A recent survey indicated that 70 percent of Europeans have concerns about their online data and how well companies secure it and now two Swedish companies, Severalnines and City Network, have begun promoting their newly merged service as "a safe haven from the reaches of the U.S. Patriot Act." Under the U.S. Patriot Act, data from European users of U.S.-based cloud services can secretly be seized by U.S. law enforcement agencies.

"We believe that a service owned and operated locally in the E.U., and fully compliant with E.U. data protection laws, will be very attractive for European companies. U.S. companies with European operations will also benefit from the lower latency of a locally hosted solution," said City Network chairman Johan Christenson.

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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/245335/european_distrust_of_us_data_security_creates_mark et_for_local_cloud_service.html



Patriot Act could apply to Rackspace data in Australia

Rackspace may not be able to ignore USA Patriot Act requests for data in its Sydney data centre, privacy and civil liberties advocates have said. But concerns raised by Rackspace competitor Macquarie Telecom seem unlikely to derail Rackspace from success in Australia, said two industry analysts.

When Rackspace announced the opening of its first data centre in Australia, the company emphasised that only Australian laws would apply to hosted data. That claim “puzzled” Macquarie Telecom general counsel, Heather Tropman. “The Patriot Act is widely recognised as having extra-territorial reach outside of just the US,” she said. Whether Rackspace has “set up a subsidiary company [in Australia] or not, they’re either a US company or they’re a US-owned company.”

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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/434683/patriot_act_could_apply_rackspace_data_australia_p rivacy_advocates/