Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of North America
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Re: Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of North America
#2Doesn't say it moves the data, just that the legal entity providing service is the Irish subsidiary.
Re: Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of North America
#3Doesn't say it moves the data, just that the legal entity providing service is the Irish subsidiary.
Wouldn't the NSA be able to capture the data on the way out anyways?
Re: Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of North America
#4Re: Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of North America
#5This post[0] in the Dropbox forum points out that Dropbox is suspected of the intention to minimize tax payable.
[0]: https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions...
Re: Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of North America
#6The clear point of this is not to protect from NSA/US Courts but to minimise tax.
I'm not sure why they never setup out of Ireland in the first place, every other US company with international revenues has already.
In addition unless Microsoft wins its appeal US courts have ruled that a US company eg: Dropbox can be forced to provide any data they have even if it is outside the US
Re: Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of North America
#7The user data is absolutely not stored in Ireland.
Re: Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of North America
#8I wonder how this will affect speed and latiency if you're on the other side of the world (like NZ and Australia).
Re: Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of North America
#9Doesn't say it moves the data, just that the legal entity providing service is the Irish subsidiary.
In terms of alternatives, AWS WorkDocs provides data storage in Ireland (and the US, Singapore and Australia).
Re: Dropbox moves to Ireland for all customers outside of North America
#10My assumption they funneling money through Ireland through knowledge based capital tax breaks, after Ireland said they abolishing double Irish last year which many large fortune 50 companies utilized in past