Police in Amsterdam seized a server from a data center in the city’s eastern district on Tuesday, following a request from U.S. authorities. The police confirmed the seizure after it was reported by the NRC.
The seized server belongs to Italian internet provider Autistici/Inventati (A/I). Dutch police are creating a digital image of its data to hand over to U.S. authorities, as required under the American request for legal assistance.
Police have not disclosed which specific data will be transferred to U.S. authorities. The server will be returned to the data center once the process is complete.
cool cool cool lesson learnt. don’t set your vpn or host a server in the netherlands
What’s interesting to me is the Netherlands is considered one of the better hosters for internet privacy. A LOT of VPN servers are hosted there comparable to other countries from many providers because of their good laws. But as we can see even those are not enough when the US pulls out the sanctions big guns and uses the terrorism word while one of their associates dresses up in a crude Putin mask and does the whole raised arms and snarling thing to get the Euro on the floor sobbing and screaming like it’s a Mel Brooks picture.