[Cryptography] Hope Apple Fights This!

[Jerry Leichter]

> I'd like to see cloud services that are located in multiple countries, but which never store more than a small % *of any one cust's data* in that particular country.  Think RAID (or in this case, Redundant Array of Independent Countries).
The US is currently suing Microsoft to gain access to data stored only on a server in England.  If they win, where you put the data becomes irrelevant.

Many countries are beginning to require that anyone doing business in that country store its data there.  The arguments are a bit different depending on where you are - the Europeans claim it's to protect their citizen's privacy by preventing the movement of their data to places where the privacy protections aren't as strong.  (It's been argued that the hidden forces behind these proposals are the intelligence services of those countries, which want to be able to get at their own citizen's data more easily.)

Your proposal is akin to all sorts of notions of data havens that have been around for years.  None has produced anything much, and given the direction laws have been going, they are unlikely to do much now.
                                                        -- Jerry