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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/14/microsoft_wins_landmark_irish_warrant_case_against_usa/The alternative would be diminishment of trust for cloud computing and other US services that currently process almost all international personal traffic. Not that the US necessarily needs to apply to anybody to access data: Canada and other members of FVEY pick up most electronic traffic anyway.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
