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And this does not say that you are. But if you are otherwise subject to American law by jurisdiction, storing your data on foreign soil does not exempt it from warrants. However if the storage provider itself has no US presence, it is much harder for the US government to compel them. But Google and the target of the warrant are subject to US courts so the physical location of the data is not relevant.


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