At least since Edward Snowden’s revelations, we know how limited data protection is in the United States. Yet, many companies still rely on cloud services from Dropbox, Google or Microsoft. Under President Donald Trump, this could end up being a fatal mistake.
Almost everyone is aware that data protection in the United States is not exactly strong. Yet recent, new insights have contributed to U.S.-American data center locations and American cloud services becoming even less attractive for local companies. The reason for this is above all the mass espionage of Internet service providers and IT service providers by the U.S. secret services.
