"Cloud" is not the future, with governments like these. All you entrepeneurs better take note.<p>Also, it's probably just a matter of time before PaaS and SaaS servers are taken down because the political winds shift against a few apps located at Rackspace or Amazon or wherever.<p>If I were in this game, I'd host everything locally and secure the crap out of it. In fact, securing your data and services against governments is likely to become a big business soon.
This highlights the core question of property rights applied to private data.<p>Surely individuals must have the same rights in this regard as governments and large corporations whose database may have been stolen?<p>The wisdom of the decision about where to store that data should not be important in law, as long as there was a reasonable expectation not to have it stolen.<p>We are not even talking about just unauthorised access to private data but about deleting it altogether! Once they get away with this, no data will ever be safe again.