Comment by JAlexoid
14 hours ago
Even being stored in EU doesn't preclude your data from being targeted by signals intelligence. Which is different than requiring US based companies to provide non-US data to American government.
Does fastmail have a US presence? If no - then they're not bound at all by US jurisdiction.
> Does fastmail have a US presence? If no - then they're not bound at all by US jurisdiction.
This hasn't been true for several years. All Australian companies (and UK companies) are under jurisdiction of the US Cloud Act. Just the same as American companies are.
https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-oia/cloud-act-agre...
As an Australian, all I can say is stop being naive.
Meanwhile, in realPolitik, they are Australian, they are subject to AU government pressure, and the AU government is deeply intertwined with and compliant to US government wishes, AUKUS, Pine Gap, Harold Holt Sub communications, Over the horizon radar on China, etc.
See: https://roncobb.net/img/cartoons/aus/k5092-on-Tucker_Box-cuu...
The question isn’t whether a service has a presence in the sense of employees or regional office, or headquarters.
The question is: do they office services to residents of said country / state.
If so they may well be subject to certain laws that, if broken, could result in penalties up to an including extradition of the responsible officers.