[aragot]

> Definitely, I'm on the lookout for any kind of service that operates in a country with transparent law enforcement and accountability.

Being European, I'm looking for services which operate in my home country. I prefer to be spied where I'm a citizen, because US clearly only protects the privacy of its own citizen, and because it is illusional that intelligence services be transparent.

However, there is no such thing as a european company running cloud services for email, rss, file storage and social network: Not even talking about dismissing american-funded strat-ups, all the supposedly European services are run under a .com website, and this extension puts them under american trade and penal laws - We've had this example of a piracy UK website run by UK citizen be trialled in US, where the defendant knew no-one, for the domain was in .com.

Note that I would trust a cloud service registered in my ophome country and in .se, because they have proper forms of government.

Who's up to start such a company? I'd give them big money to keep my records home.

[magicalist]

This is not correct. You and your site are certainly not subject to "american trade and penal laws" just because a .com registered address directs to your server. They can seize your domain name, but that's it.

[aragot]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/03/us-anti-pir...

They can extrade the person: "As long as a website's address ends in .com or .net, if it is implicated in the spread of pirated US-made films, TV or other media it is a legitimate target to be closed down or targeted for prosecution"

[mnordhoff]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law

.se, huh?