Funny you should mention that: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/european-commission-8216in-denial-over-patriot-act-loophole/2556
- ferg On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Robert Slade <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/23463/use-of-google-docs-is-illegal-in-norway/ > > This is of particular interest to me right at this moment, because I'm in a > meeting, and one of our exec has mentioned our files directory. Our site is > hosted by Google, and our files are, of course, on Google Docs. ( > www.ismsug.org , in case anyone is interested.) > > However, I've got to say that the only thing that surprises me about > "Inspectorate states that the EU-US Safe Harbor agreement does not adequately > guarantee data protection in the face of the US Patriot Act. The Patriot Act > gives the US government the right and ability to demand personal data on any > person anywhere in the world if that data is held anywhere in the world by a > US company - such as Google" is that it has taken so long for someone to > object. My home province passed legislation a few years back stating that no > American company, or company that stores data in the US, can bid on medical > info systems. For exactly this reason. > -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson fergdawgster(at)gmail.com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
