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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: Brad on January 23, 2014, 01:12:23 AM

Title: Microsoft offers offshore storage to thwart NSA
Post by: Brad on January 23, 2014, 01:12:23 AM

Microsoft announced an unpredecented response to concerns of NSA data access, offering customers in foreign countries the option of having their data stored outside US borders. According to a Financial Times report, the company decided to launch the program after discovering the NSA was using their networks to surveil citizens of Brazil and the European Union.


http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/22/5335434/microsoft-offers-overseas-data-storage-in-response-to-nsa-concerns
Title: Re: Microsoft offers offshore storage to thwart NSA
Post by: ergophobe on January 23, 2014, 05:41:33 PM
I know that any people harbor il feelings from the 1980s and 1990s, but at this point I trust MS more than I trust Google or my government.