[anonymousab]

The CLOUD act is not the only problem. FISA itself would also need to change.

There is essentially a level of control over its citizens that the US government would need to cede to ever become compliant, but that it certainly never would.

[robin_reala]

That’s fine then. They’ll just have to deal with the consequences of chunks of the world with better privacy legislation cleaving away from the US, with the consequent loss of business. And, presumably, data, unless they want to go on a hacking spree.