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Originally Posted by Tarantella
Of course the Patriot act applies to emails and to VM's email service which is provided by Google, an American company, with it's HQ in America.
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However Google has a European HQ in Ireland so has to comply with EU law and America comes under the 'Safe Harbour' agreements
http://www.soas.ac.uk/infocomp/dpa/policy/outside/ so any request under the Patriot act would conflict with EU law