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by ranger_danger 46 days ago
> in today’s unstable geopolitical environment, laws like the US CLOUD Act can compel US-owned video conferencing platforms to hand over any data they store, even if the servers reside outside of the United States

So does that mean two people using this in the US will both have high latency to another country?
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ZoneZealot 45 days ago
Proton Meet relies entirely on LiveKit Cloud (USA based) to run https://proton.me/meet/privacy-policy

LiveKit Cloud uses virtual compute and networking across multiple (USA based) cloud providers. DigitalOcean, Google and Oracle at minimum. They each have servers all of the world of course, but the controlling entity(s) parent companies are all based in the USA.

Latency shouldn’t be a problem, it's handled by a global CDN.

Proton including that part about geopolitical instability implies that Meet is does not fall under the USA's CLOUD Act - that would be wrong. The metadata of any Meet call could be handed to USA authorities, for example the participants date & time, source IP and useragent of each member. The call itself should be E2E encrypted.

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limaoscarjuliet 46 days ago
Packet round trip between US and EU is approx. 100ms. Given acceptable latency for voice communication is below 300ms, we should not worry about that too much.
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ranger_danger 46 days ago
> we should not worry about that too much

I do worry about it and I think lots of people will as well for other reasons.

One of them is screen sharing.

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