Any BRITISH, Japanese, German, Chinese, or INSERT COUNTRY NAME HERE based company that has an operating arm in the US is also applicable under the US Patriot Act. Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and Gmail accounts are also applicable to the US Patriot Act.
This Act has reaching consequences both far and wide. Most is hypothetical but the US Patriot Act still stands as the largest invasion of privacy in the history of the world.
Regardless of what you think, however, Canada, the UK, most countries in the EU, Japan, and many other countries have the exact same style of laws. Simple fact is the US has the headquarters of some of the largest companies in the world which leaves a lot of data open to the Act.
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