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mrtesthahyesterday at 5:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

Ok, but Fastmail is an Australian company based in Melbourne.


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petcatyesterday at 5:56 PM

Australia and the US entered into a bilateral agreement in 2024 which made Australian companies subject to the US CLOUD Act.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-oia/cloud-act-agre...

toomuchtodoyesterday at 5:54 PM

As a FastMail customer who spends a portion of the year in the US, I am happy to pay to move my data to the EU region, even if they cannot yet fully guarantee all my data will remain outside of US access at this time. Defense and mitigations in depth, over time. We must always start somewhere, and perfect is never the target (as it does not exist).

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OJFordyesterday at 5:57 PM

But whose cloud infrastructure do they use? (I don't know, but it might likely be AWS, GCP, or Azure.)

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