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Google Teh Evil? Cloud economics, BigTable + GFS vs. EU privacy laws

Can European companies store data in US data centers, or is that against EU law? Can Google accomodate European companies by segregating data geographically, or are they architecting their data storage system to be one global system?

Mark Masterson explores the tension between national privacy laws and global cloud computing systems, and contrasts the different approaches that Google and Amazon are taking.