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The speculation is only due to lack of information.

However, even if you indeed handed the keys to the US government, you will be bound by them not to disclose it, so there's no much point answering either "yes" or "no" as long as you or any of your company assets are in the reach of US government.

The same line of thought applies to any company connected with the US in any way, not just to Opera/FastMail.

Anyways, thanks for the update.

Lack of transparency leads to speculation.

As levosmetalo mentioned, we're forced to speculate when it comes to NSA spying, since companies apparently can be forced to not disclose anything. Which is why I think FastMail should see this as a great opportunity to move all servers to Norway. That would stop the speculation.

You should add clarification to your answer that you work with / own Fastmail.

Thanks. I've editing my original comment.