You mean "cloud" all by itself. Don't let the current focus on the NSA fool you into believing that other countries aren't taking low hanging fruit like "your data on a remote server" for their intelligence.
To say its all about 'terrorism' is laughable, and I wonder just how many trade deals etc have fallen foul of this, or how many people manipulated into doing what the likes of George Bush wanted. How could you trust doing business with someone in the US after these revelations? Just blatant lies all over the place, from the top echelons down. They've made it to the point where if you wanted to develop something you don't want them to grab, it means an air-gapped workstation. That probably doesn't have much mileage either.
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-...
This idea that you just put your data in Europe and it's safer is just laughable. The treat is pervasive, it is intelligence agencies working together all around the world. It doesn't stop at any national border.
> top echelons down
I can't tell if you're being humourous or not, but the Snowden releases weren't really new information, they were proof of what information that had leaked out over the past decades.
Pretty poor situation.
The issue in my mind is that we are literally at war with individuals, and we focus on the symptoms instead of root causes. We have been assassinating, subverting, bribing and observing individual enemies of the state for over a decade.
Has doing this done anything to make us safer, as in how we felt in the 80s before international terrorism?