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By US law companies are obligated to reveal any data they are ordered to and many times do that illegally also.

You are posting a false narrative according to your own link.

> UK made illegal copies of classified personal information from a database reserved for members of the passport-free Schengen travel zone.

Why?

His link says that the UK made copies, and that private contractors hired by the UK government such as IBM were given access. IBM, and most other firms that the UK government likely uses as contractors, have offices and data centers in the UK.

I didn't notice anywhere in his link that said that anyone moved copies of the data to the US.

Surprise. The bits can be in two or more places at the same time. You known... the magic of "cp"

The US companies were working for the UK government as well, i think.