A New Twist in International Relations: The Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-the-U.S. Clause

[unhappycamper]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-24/a-new-twist-in-international-relations-the-corporate-keep-my-data-out-of-the-u-s-clause.html



A New Twist in International Relations: The Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-the-U.S. Clause
By Jordan Robertson 2013-12-24T11:45:43Z

By now, we've heard from tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Cisco Systems that the National Security Agency's spying poses a threat to their international business and, in Cisco's case, is already hurting it. So what does that threat look like, exactly, at ground level?

Some companies are apparently so concerned about the NSA snooping on their data that they're requiring - in writing - that their technology suppliers store their data outside the U.S.

In Canada, a pharmaceutical company and government agency have now both added language to that effect to their contracts with suppliers, as did a grocery chain in the U.K., according to J.J. Thompson, chief executive officer of Rook Consulting, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based security-consulting firm. He declined to name the companies, which are using Rook to manage the segmentation and keep the data out of the U.S.

Thompson said the language began appearing in contracts over the past couple weeks, and could be an early indicator of things to come as businesses adapt to a landscape altered by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks. Documents leaked by Snowden indicate that the NSA has tapped fiber-optic cables abroad, circumvented or cracked encryption and is massively collecting telephone records and Internet traffic. Facebook, Google, Apple and Yahoo were among 15 technology companies that asked President Barack Obama Dec. 17 to restrain the spy programs. Cisco said Nov. 13 that NSA spying has caused delays to networking equipment orders.

[Demeter]

1. The Global "Boycott the US" Movement Begins

Well, can't say as the US didn't have it coming to us. Stupidity, illegality, greed and fascism have consequences.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. North America should have started to wake up after the Honda Civic started gaining sales.

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Oh wait, maybe earlier - when Japan's transistor radios started beating the shit out of North American sales.

Even later - warnings were there - manufacturing of USA/Canadian goods went to Mexico, Japan, Korea, China and so on -

and now our frikken FOOD!

We send our livestock slaughtered to other countries, pay THEM to butcher and package it,

send it back,

and pay shipping both ways!

TODAY IS THE INFORMATION AGE DUMMIES!

Everyone can find out anything on anyone if they want to - most of us don't thank goodness.

Once you start poking around in someone else's business - private or otherwise,

when they find out you are poking around in their lives,

THEY ARE GONNA DAMM WELL POKE BACK!

What you now know, soon everyone else that wants to will know.

There are no guaranteed secrets today.

One picture, one text, one phone call, one tweet, whatever -

It can be global in a nanosecond.

USA is digging itself into a hole,

Old saying:

If ya find yourself in a hole,

STOP DIGGING!



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[bananas]

3. Permanently outsourced. nt