http://www.accellion.com/blog/2012/10/information-governance-the-big-elephant-in-the-european-cloud/ Secure Mobile File Sharing news and commentary on enterprise security, mobility, data protection, compliance, collaboration, email and FTP related topics. Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:36:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.accellion.com/blog/2012/10/information-governance-the-big-elephant-in-the-european-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-7402 Ryan Swindall Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:25:54 +0000 http://www.accellion.com/blog/?p=3284#comment-7402 Hi Ian, thank you for posting your question. A limited company registered by a U.S. company would still be a subsidiary with primary ownership from a U.S. company. Given that's the case, this should still fall under the same guidelines and be subject to the U.S. Patriot act based on all I have read on this topic. The only way to side-step it from what I've gathered so far is to have the data-center itself owned and operated by a European company (non-U.S. owned) and then running the U.S. based company's cloud infrastructure and software from within that data-center, this could exist through partnership/alliance type arrangements. Hi Ian, thank you for posting your question. A limited company registered
by a U.S. company would still be a subsidiary with primary ownership from a
U.S. company. Given that’s the case, this should still fall under the same
guidelines and be subject to the U.S. Patriot act based on all I have read
on this topic. The only way to side-step it from what I’ve gathered so
far is to have the data-center itself owned and operated by a European
company (non-U.S. owned) and then running the U.S. based company’s cloud
infrastructure and software from within that data-center, this could exist
through partnership/alliance type arrangements.

]]> http://www.accellion.com/blog/2012/10/information-governance-the-big-elephant-in-the-european-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-7348 Ian Davin Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:35:09 +0000 http://www.accellion.com/blog/?p=3284#comment-7348 Dave, you raise an interesting point that I am starting to hear about a lot from UK based customers - they are really worried about the extent to which the US government can access their Data and as the majority of cloud companies seem to come from the US this is going to hamper cloud adoption, not just for secure file exchange but for any service. What happens if the US company, registers a company in another country, eg a limited company in the UK, what jurisdiction does this fall under then? Dave, you raise an interesting point that I am starting to hear about a lot from UK based customers – they are really worried about the extent to which the US government can access their Data and as the majority of cloud companies seem to come from the US this is going to hamper cloud adoption, not just for secure file exchange but for any service. What happens if the US company, registers a company in another country, eg a limited company in the UK, what jurisdiction does this fall under then?

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