[GauntletWizard]

And Germany has, currently and historically, shown an utter contempt for the rights of it's citizens, far moreso than the current US crisis. Germany talks a good game with their data privacy laws, but those only affect citizens data being collected by corporations; They've dramatically increased their data collection laws[1], and while some have been found unconstitutional (Look up the Telecommunications Databank opinion), they've quickly been reworded and re-enacted[2].

Because of German data seizure laws, they believe they can request any data about or belonging to any German citizen without a warrant, so long as that data resides in Germany. At least one large cloud provider has German datacenters, but will not use them for storage of any German citizens data because of this.

[1]: http://idpl.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/09/10/idpl...

[2]: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/11/germ-a11.html

[derefr]

So... what's a country that doesn't have much of a history of contempt for the rights of its citizens?