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by 16BitTons 5477 days ago
Do you have any suggestions on safe countries? As far as I can tell, the USA is still has the best mixture of freedom and protection available.
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The Netherlands, Sweden, etc. provide pretty good coverage and is where a lot of the seedboxes for torrenting are held. If you have something you want the government to have a almost nonexistent (depending on what it is) chance of getting to, go with Russia, China, etc. and other countries that probably don't have the best relations with the United States.
Russia and China are perhaps good examples of places to host something the US government has little chance of getting to, but the governments of those countries are far worse about this sort of thing than that of the States, so I wouldn't want my data to be stored there.
Depends on your data, you don't want your company IP or your bank details held there.

But they are hardly likely to pass onto the FBI the fact that you read the wiki article on Marx and so might be a security risk.