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What do you mean with vitriol? The handling of personal data by the United States government is just an unsolved problem that has to be dealt with. How is Google going to lock the data in the EU, in a way that it can't be grabbed by the unbound US surveillance apparatus?


I am much more afraid of my data being grabbed by EU / my government surveillance apparatus.


Can't you be worried about both? In the EU you at least theoretically have legal recourse. But these issues go hand in hand, as surveillance data sharing programs like Five Eyes have shown.


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