[DethNinja]

I wonder how this will affect American tech companies, will they relocate their HQ out of USA? I guess every company operating in the USA will have to implement this, I’m thinking about regionally dividing my customer base just to leave Europeans higher amount of security with encryption but this is costly for me as well.

[Ididntdothis]

Massive surveillance will be a boon for the big tech companies. They already do everything they can to get as much data as possible. Even better, if it’s government sanctioned.

[maximente]

i doubt it, for big tech anyway. those larger tech companies get a fair chunk of change from .gov (e.g. US DoD cloud JEDI contract as well as lord knows whatever classified/black projects); they also aren't subject to NSA offensive attack as are companies outside of the US, and may benefit from NSA/homeland security/FBI defensive information.

the only tax seems to be, according to snowden, a /intelligence-community endpoint of some sort. that doesn't seem like a huge ask as i'm sure those endpoints largely exist anyway.