On 2014-08-26 1:10 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
Thanks for your email! I'm curious to know what jurisdiction this
data is going to be stored in. If the answer is the US, what steps
have we taken to ensure that this data will be safe from being
accessed by the US government through a subpoena? I think given what
we currently know about the hostile practices employed by the US
government in order to spy on non-US citizens, as a non-US citizen I
would be extremely uncomfortable if this gives them a legal way to
access this data.
For what it's worth, any server Mozilla controls is subject to the
American judicial system - FISA court orders, National Security Letters,
regular old subpoenas, the works - just by virtue of Mozilla being based
in California. That was settled in 1988, in the "Bank Of Nova Scotia Vs.
United States" case.
The case:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=487&invol=250
See also: http://www.insideprivacy.com/PatriotActQA.pdf
I share your concerns, but I don't think we can avoid being subject to
the discovery laws, however egregious, of any country we have an office in.
- mhoye
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