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Couldn't this mean a big hit to ALL american IT companies? I for one(brasilian) would move out of G-mail right off the bat, this bill probably means USA gets to snoop and mine data on anyone even if not an american citizen, possibly even if such thing is illegal in this person country...

I'd definitely consider abandoning plenty of USA-based services/business, use an alternative from some other place that has some regard for humanity, spread the word to people I know, maybe even making a living off of it

- "come to my service everyone, we're not .com!"



The short answer: absolutely

The relatively strong property rights and privacy laws that the US has enjoyed are being obliterated at warp speed (or more specifically, they're using the leap to digital as a means to bypass all the existing physical protections on the books, pretending none of it applies).




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