I'm Brazilian and in the corporate and government space there is considerable resistance to hosting systems and data outside our jurisdiction. What I don't think people have fully realized yet is that American companies are subject to the Patriot Act wherever the operate, so even data stored in Brazil might be exported by them to USA authorities without the customers being notified. I ask myself, how far does this extend? Not only to online services, but even to mainframes and storage systems? Application software? Operating systems?