Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech 203
Harperdog writes "Politico has a piece on how the Patriot Act is interfering with U.S. firms trying to do business overseas in the area of cloud computing. Here's a quote: 'The Sept. 11-era law was supposed to help the intelligence community gather data on suspected terrorists. But competitors overseas are using it as a way to discourage foreign countries from signing on with U.S. cloud computing providers like Google and Microsoft: Put your data on a U.S.-based cloud, they warn, and you may just put it in the hands of the U.S. government.'"
Re:Laughable (Score:4, Funny)
The "cloud" analogy always seemed like "newspeak" to me, designed to get the customer to NOT think about where their data is
Whenever I say "the cloud", I have to wave my arms around and look at the ceiling. I just can't help myself.