Friday, 2. December 2011
Topic: EU - on December 2, 2011 at 5:14:00 PM CET
European distrust of U.S. 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.
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