In terms of state level spying. I understand that currently GCHQ hands everything over to the NSA. However, I can vote and lobby in my country to have proper safeguards on how our domestic spy agencies work. I can&#x27;t vote or lobby in the US to add safeguards to the NSA there. Therefore I want as a first step that my data stays in the UK.<p>And besides this the rules for how private companies can handle my data are totally different in the UK to the US. In the UK private data comes with fairly strict obligations under the data protection acts and leaking (even accidentally or due to insufficient safeguards preventing malicious actions) can be punished robustly. As I understand it in the US the laws are rather different.