"Recent revelations about NSA surveillance programs have created a "misimpression" about the U.S. technology industry and are eroding trust in those companies, said Dean Garfield, president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI).
The furor over the NSA surveillance programs could lead to lost income in the tens of billions of dollars for U.S. cloud providers, and many U.S. tech vendors are already hearing complaints, he said."
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246043/NSA_spy_program_hurting_U.S._vendors
This need to be discussed, in depth, to assure us that no hanky lanky is going on with our data, e-mail, contacts, publicly traded private information, and court case documents.
If the Exchange Team doesn't feel this is worthy information, then I'll give you the middle finger while saying "hell no" to the MEC and any other event. We will go back to cc:Mail running on OS2 Warp if we have to rather than trust and untrustworthy Microsoft
Office 365 offering.