Robert.Smith (8/10/2009)
...The US Patriot Act, for example, left those of us outside the US scrambling to ensure that no private or confidential data was being stored on servers in the US where it could be subject to arbitrary search and seizure. I'm not interested in going through that again...
Guess that works, as long as you're sure that your own government won't give up the info on request from the US. Or your ISP, or tape storage center, etc.
US network providers have been very compliant (cowardly) about giving up info to Chinese authorities seeking to suppress dissent without even requiring warrants from US courts.