• Jaytreeman@kbin.social
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    1 month ago

    Purely speculating here:

    The patriot act made it so that the US government had ownership of any data that passed through US land. Is this just a way for the US to monitor all traffic going through into and out of Russia?

    It’s actually a big deal inside any privacy space outside of the US. For instance, any healthcare data in Canada can’t go through the US. Same thing for EU countries. Bigger corporations like MS know this and have data centers available for those countries to access within their own borders.