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If you work for the government in Australia, you probably want the OPPOSITE of what this is - cloud servers hosted entirely outside the USA. If the servers are located in the US, they are potentially subject to the US patriot act, and i doubt that would pass Australian government privacy regulations

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I'm pretty sure he was simply using his position as the background to why he has that opinion, not suggesting that non-US governments will look to use it.

That's right. Sorry should've made that clearer.

Obviously for the Australian government we would need an Australian version of this or a similar service.

Government IT procurement for fairly trivial systems cost unbelievable amounts of money. A lot of this is due to an overly rigid scoping and dev process.

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