Cloud Act affects users of US clouds
It is widely known that on March 23, US President Donald Trump signed a new bill into law. The document was 2,000 pages long and contained budget items costing USD 1,300 billion. So far, nothing strange. What is not so well known, however, is that this huge document also included something called the CLOUD Act (The Clarifying Overseas Use of Data). This is a set of new laws that allow US authorities to access stored data abroad and vice versa. It is an update of the existing ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) from 1986 which has become outdated. In the US, this has been widely discussed in the media, but in Europe, it has been overshadowed by the big GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) debate that will be introduced in the EU on May 25.
If you want to read more about how this affects you as a user of US cloud services, this article describes it well.
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If you want to use a Swedish cloud service that is not subject to the CLOUD Act, you are welcome to us at Swedish Storegate AB. We believe in corporate and individual privacy and we guarantee that:
- All information is stored in Sweden under Swedish law.
- Storegate does not use information stored for any purpose other than to store it for our customers.
- The customer retains ownership of all information stored in the Storegate cloud service.
