Comment by hedora

16 days ago

The US CLOUD act says something similar to your straw man (though it doesn't ban E2E encryption like the UK is attempting to do):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

Note that it the bar is having the ability to access the server, so this law is completely incompatible with most GPDR solutions: It's illegal to store European user data and then refuse to hand it over to US law enforcement, regardless of whether the data is stored in Europe or the request breaks European law.