According to WaPo, the secret order demands blanket access to cloud data from any user anywhere in the world : http://archive.today/79dA3

> from any user anywhere in the world

Is that even legal? At the very least, doesn't it break some EU privacy laws?

Why would the UK Government care about that? They’re not bound by the EU’s laws. They’re trying to force Apple to secretly break the EU and other countries’ laws, and don’t care as long as they get what they want…

Wouldn't that warrant a reaction from the EU then? I haven't seen any.

Post-Brexit, I imagine that's a feature of the request, not a bug, at least from the UK's standpoint

As long as the company operates as a legal entity in the country, the government can force it to comply with its mandates. It doesn't matter if the specific service is offered in the UK or not.

Same applies to USA and clouds hosted in Europe.

Only real move way is to start creating local corporate structures. Maybe even entirely separate companies. And have the infra in those areas. So UK customers are served from UK servers by UK company. USA customers from USA servers by USA company. And EU customers from EU servers by EU company. Repeat for enough.

Maybe if some of these agree to play fully nice with legislation and privacy there could be some cross work. But seeing how even EU is moving, I am doubtful.