alt Hacker News> your data can still be forcibly pulled and often without you being aware that this happened
as a german i feel the urge to point out that this technically also applies to european companies... With more hurdles for the US, but still technically applicable
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True, I think the calculus is more about who you think is more trustworthy than what tools they have to damage you.
I am almost positive things are not the way they were and requests for data access especially if the subjects background is "suspect" are more highly scrutinized.
And as the Americans are choosing to interfere in European domestic politics and trample their own laws and constitution the more scrutiny their requests will get.
europeans like it more when just european governments are doing it
Especially if European companies have an office and significant share of customers in the US.
That's true but the EU still has a - mostly - functioning legal system. See 'Schrems' and other lawsuits that came out as they should have.