Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Aug 30, 2008, 17 :01 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (6091 reads) (Other stories by John Markoff)
""Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United States have been reluctant to store client information in the U.S.," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. “There is an ongoing concern that U.S. intelligence agencies will gather this information without legal process."