By Kenneth N Rashbaum Esq. and Jason M. Tenenbaum of Rashbaum Associates, LLC.

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Among the European responses to the release of documents by Edward Snowden was a plethora of proposals to create cloud providers that would host data exclusively on servers located in Europe.  The basis of this reaction may be found in the European privacy laws, which place severe constraints upon disclosures of personal data (data that can be linked to an identifiable person).  For reasons steeped in history, the greatest concern of many countries is the prospect of the U.S. government accessing personal data of …