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I'm trying to find out from their website, but it's unclear. Are the servers hosted in the USA? And will the organisation be incorporated in the USA?

If you're talking about privacy and transparency, it's better to operate in a place bound the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, rather than the US Constitution, because the former gives people much more rights with their data, how it's used, etc.

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It is very early so we are not yet incorporated. The issues you mention will definitely be taken into account!

At scale, we'd probably have multiple legal entities in different countries anyway, like Wikimedia.

Thanks for your concern. However I was under the impression that Wikimedia was a US organisation, with some local chapters. Perhaps incorporate in a EU country from the start?

Totally on point, if privacy is a concern the company should not be inc. on American soil. I'm also having a hard time trying to find the roadmap for infrastructure, how many machines are running or will be expected to run. Scaling is not trivial and I don't see how that would be addressed.

Right, there is no specific roadmap for infrastructure yet or view of what servers are currently running. I will add those things on our Operations page, thanks! https://about.commonsearch.org/developer/operations

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