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  • On 18 August, EU police can order data straight from your host

    The e-Evidence Regulation starts applying on 18 August 2026. What a European Production Order is, what it is not, what it changes if you host with a US company versus a European one โ€” and what it means for our customers, including the part where it applies to us too.

  • Victory! 702 has Expired!

    India McKinney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on the day FISA Section 702 lapsed. Republished under CC BY 4.0 โ€” with our note on the part that makes it a smaller victory than it sounds, and on why the CLOUD Act is untouched either way.

  • The U.S. CLOUD Act and the EU: A Privacy Protection Race to the Bottom

    Katitza Rodriguez, writing for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2018, on how the CLOUD Act and the EU’s own e-evidence plans were racing each other towards weaker privacy. Republished under CC BY 4.0, with a note on what has changed since.

  • The backup question nobody asks: has it ever been restored?

    Every host says they take daily backups. Very few can tell you the last time one was restored and checked. Those are different claims, and only the second one is worth anything.

  • EU hosting is not EU data sovereignty

    Almost every large cloud will sell you a European region. Almost none of them will tell you that the region is not the thing that decides which law reaches your data.