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		dirtyaura on April 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB... It's not even about a choice, as companies from EU countries can't store store user identification data of EU citizens in US servers. So you are more or less legally forced to have (some) servers in EU.

jahewson on April 28, 2012 [–]

Actually any US company can self-certify under the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and be eligible to store data from the EU.

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