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TLDR: Databases shipped to foreign soil, used by consultants without security clearance.

This seems to get a bit bigger by the day. We usually do not have scandals and such high profile activities but this is pretty huge tbh. :(



This is happening more and more recently, because the US is only signing treaties (even unrelated ones) if they require that countries allow governmental data to be outsourced into the US.

This is getting very scary, and I’m starting to feel like we should stop doing any interaction with the US here in Europe.




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