According to the BBC, The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendment Act (FISAAA) allows US authorities to spy on cloud data. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21263321 Anyone with stored information relating to US foreign policy could find themselves of interest to the US authorities. Fibre-optic cable that carries the data is split and a miniature supercomputer scans all the data in real-time with any material of possible interest being instantly copied to the NSA [National Security Agency]