Cloud providers and users are facing a real dilemma: The Safe Harbor agreement between the United States and European Union was struck down in October by EU courts, and a new agreement under review to replace it may not provide the ease of user-data transfer that U.S. companies seek — and it may not protect user privacy enough either. That means uncertainty all around.
The EU is the latest government to voice concern that data stored on U.S. cloud servers would be subject to U.S. government seizures — as the feds have already tried with a Microsoft server in Ireland.
