“The move to make Dublin the centre of its headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) was announced last month.  The firm has been horrified by some of the surveillance programmes revealed by Snowden and is understood to be relieved that it will be beyond the immediate reach of UK surveillance laws.  Following the Guardian’s disclosures about snooping on Yahoo webcams, the company said it was ‘committed to preserving our users trust and security and continue our efforts to expand encryption across all of our services.’ It said GCHQ’s activity was ‘completely unacceptable..we strongly call on the world’s governments to reform surveillance law.'”

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/20/theresa-may-yahoo-dublin-security-worry

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