Whatever happens next in the reform of EU Data Protection law, many Europeans will have little practical alternative to using US Cloud services, and businesses and governments will also be sending personal data into US Clouds without individuals' consent. The talk will explain why all data sent into Clouds outside Europe is at risk of purely political mass-surveillance, and that the EU Commission and many Data Protection Authorities know this but turn a blind-eye, and a law that is much worse than the notorious PATRIOT Act (if you are not American) but few people have ever heard of.