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Well, they couldn't spell "Luleå" correctly either.
Lulea is the correct English alphabet spelling.
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Facebook confirms first data center outside US on edge of Arctic Circle
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#22At first I thought, Canada? Yeh Canada. Then I found out it's Sweden. Still cool.
Hope this doesn't start the joke of "the cpus run so hot they melt the permafrost.
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#23I guess FRA will be happy.
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#24I guess FRA will be happy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law
Yes, this is jackpot for FRA. It is also jackpot for those that wish Facebook less influence, since you can bet that Facebook traffic will be closely monitored by FRA, and if you don't like that, you must use Facebook less. But of course, Facebook will still know more about you than FRA will.
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#25Hmmm, i submitted this yesterday.
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#26What impact is this going to have on them from the legal side of things? They've got enough trouble with Facebook Ireland Ltd. and privacy/data retention, but now that they're actually storing user data in an EU state, does that make things more complicated for them?
The EU Data Rentention Directive should apply. From Wikipedia
"According to the directive, member states will have to store citizens' telecommunications data for six to 24 months stipulating a maximum time period. Under the directive the police and security agencies will be able to request access to details such as IP address and time of use of every email, phone call and text message sent or received. A request to access the information will be possible only with a court order."
However, this is not yet a law in Sweden, and it was not implemented in time. I believe Sweden pays a fine for this and but the political opposition has suspended it until 2012. It should be law by the time the data center is operational.