[Notary Sojac]

What we are going to see is a lot of cloud-based business activity moving off U.S. shores.

Businesses with trade secrets and details of negotiations to protect - not illegal by any stretch - are going to want to minimize the risk of bureaucratic surveillance.

This will cost our economy bigtime. For example:

How Much Will PRISM Cost the U.S. Cloud Computing Industry?

[jpsb]

"What we are going to see is a lot of cloud-based business activity moving off U.S. shores."

I think the lesson to be learned here is that the "cloud" is not secure no matter where it's based. Smart people knew this along and kept there confidential data on servers under their direct control.

[driftdiver]

Its already costing us. I’ve attended some international events and companies in Canada, South America, and the Islands will refuse to do business with mainland America companies because of the Patriot Act.