[kuschku]

Asking is not a solution.

This is a question of trust. I have to trust that DO will keep my data safe, that, if the US government would be after my data, DO would prevent them from accessing it. I have to trust that DO won’t access my data.

How am I supposed to trust my, and my user’s personally identifying data, to a company that just like that revokes credit, without warning, and says "well, if you ask nicely, you can get it back"?

[asddddd]

> ...if the US government would be after my data, DO would prevent them from accessing it.

This is completely unrealistic. If the [local jurisdiction government] is after your data, they'll have your host, ISP, and anyone else give it to them.

(Inexplicable downtime = your server being imaged.)

Believing anything else, IMO, is purely delusional.

[kuschku]

Well, the US isn’t the local jurisdiction.

I’m in Germany, my users are in Germany, and if I host with DO in Frankfurt, I have to trust that my data stays in Frankfurt.

[Johnny555]

Billing practices and data privacy seem like completely different subjects and I'd be surprised if there's much correlation between the two.

[kuschku]

Why? You’d trust all your private data, and your customers data, to a company that just tried to scam you out of money if you hadn’t been careful? (Maybe "scam" is a strong word, but the result is the same – changing the ToS to revoke credit with only a weeks warning certainly is shady)

I’m sorry, but I can’t trust such a company.