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Two reasons for non-Americans:

- the snooping is explicitly targeting foreigners. In USA I'm a foreigner, by hosting in my own country I have at least the protection of being a citizen.

- if I don't like the snooping my own government does, I can call my representatives, vote for "less snooping" political candidates, start lobbying etc. In a foreign country like USA I have no rights or leverage whatsoever.

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NSA and CIA has been used for Industrial espionage purposes in the past, so I wouldn't be surprised if this whole PRISM program was in part for enriching the wealthy and connected even more (and their enterprises).

We already moved our servers & data back to Germany right now evaluating few replacements for Google Apps.

> evaluating few replacements for Google Apps.

Curious about your eventual decision.

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