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Asking is not a solution.

This is a question of trust. I have to trust that DO will keep my data safe, that, if the US government would be after my data, DO would prevent them from accessing it. I have to trust that DO won’t access my data.

How am I supposed to trust my, and my user’s personally identifying data, to a company that just like that revokes credit, without warning, and says "well, if you ask nicely, you can get it back"?

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> ...if the US government would be after my data, DO would prevent them from accessing it.

This is completely unrealistic. If the [local jurisdiction government] is after your data, they'll have your host, ISP, and anyone else give it to them.

(Inexplicable downtime = your server being imaged.)

Believing anything else, IMO, is purely delusional.

Well, the US isn’t the local jurisdiction.

I’m in Germany, my users are in Germany, and if I host with DO in Frankfurt, I have to trust that my data stays in Frankfurt.

Billing practices and data privacy seem like completely different subjects and I'd be surprised if there's much correlation between the two.

Why? You’d trust all your private data, and your customers data, to a company that just tried to scam you out of money if you hadn’t been careful? (Maybe "scam" is a strong word, but the result is the same – changing the ToS to revoke credit with only a weeks warning certainly is shady)

I’m sorry, but I can’t trust such a company.

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