What a shame that Fastmail hosts our emails in the US
Unfortunately, we’ll have to leave, my European friends.
Earlier this week, the US Supreme Court upheld Donald Trump’s decision, taken in March 2025, to remove Rebecca Slaughter as head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a US agency previously regarded as independent.
The US President had told her that her continued tenure in the post would be ‘incompatible with the administration’s priorities’. For some critics of the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) agreement signed between Europe and the US, this decision calls the agreement into question.
In other words, the use of US cloud services to store personal data is now being called into question.
It is only a matter of time before European law adapts to the indescribable chaos generated by the Trump administration.
And I’m sorry, but our data, however insignificant it may be, deserves better than to be left lying around in the cloud of this insecure country.
Fastmail, I used to love you so much…