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Are subsidiaries of US cloud hosts bound by the Patriot Act?

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If the company is a subsidiary (i.e. has a legal connection to the parent organization) the PATRIOT Act can only be applicable upon the parent company, which can instruct the subsidiary to hand over the information as required. read more

Anytime the PATRIOT Act is enforced it is a legal struggle. With the Department of Homeland Security being the biggest bully, they try to intimidate US companies into thinking that all subsidiaries are also operating under US law. read more

the EU and using the services of a US subsidiary for data processing; the EU which uses any third party to store or process data in the USA i.e. a hosting company; Google in the UK, Amazon in the Netherlands and Microsoft in Germany to name a few examples are all bound by the Patriot Act. read more

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