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Well obviously many governments have spies. There's even a genre of entertainment constructed around spies. And generally in the spy narrative the spy is after guys from the other country, not his own.

The revelation here is that if you are a non-American your data that you store via a company based in the US is available to the US government with virtually (maybe even literally?) no protections. And this isn't tin foil paranoia, the US Government just told you that in public discourse.



> And this isn't tin foil paranoia, the US Government just told you that in public discourse.

You know, if you had said that about anything else, it'd be a transparency win.




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