Oddly we had an international phone system that worked without routing all calls through servers in the US before, and the same could and should be done for cloud services.
We should move to a model where the end user has a cloud end point in their own jurisdiction which contains all the apps and services they want. Stuff like docker looks a lot like an enabling technology. For example, this means Google shouldn't host gmail, but it should be available as a component for local hosting.
But we should be clear, the problem is not governments (there will always be bad ones every now and again), it's naive companies that believe that if they collect the data it's not going to be stolen from them. I would go so far as to say regulating the companies to prevent this stupidity is more likely to effect actual change than attempting to regulate the government.
We should move to a model where the end user has a cloud end point in their own jurisdiction which contains all the apps and services they want. Stuff like docker looks a lot like an enabling technology. For example, this means Google shouldn't host gmail, but it should be available as a component for local hosting.
But we should be clear, the problem is not governments (there will always be bad ones every now and again), it's naive companies that believe that if they collect the data it's not going to be stolen from them. I would go so far as to say regulating the companies to prevent this stupidity is more likely to effect actual change than attempting to regulate the government.