As someone in the US who has been in audits where we had to attest to where our data was stored, also wtf.
Comment on Microsoft exec admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty
logicbomb@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This is more politics than technology, but it’s good info for people living outside the US. You can’t trust your data to American companies no matter where they store the data.
neclimdul@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
logicbomb@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The article makes it pretty clear that this is due to a 2018 law called The Cloud Act. I’m sure the US could have tightened the thumbscrews and gotten the information illegally before then, but that’s going to be true of every country. No reason to think you can trust any government.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Even non-American CSPs with assets in the US would required to cooperate with US regime and affiliated oligarch gangs.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
this is why you should encrypt everything on cloud services at rest. S3? encrypted. SQS? encrypted. MSSQL? encrypted.
if you are a developer or SRE you need to make sure your apps are encrypted.