Under U.S. Pressure, PayPal Nukes Mega For Encrypting Files
Found on TorrentFreak on Saturday, 28 February 2015
After coming under intense pressure PayPal has closed the account of cloud-storage service Mega. According to the company, SOPA proponent Senator Patrick Leahy personally pressured Visa and Mastercard who in turn called on PayPal to terminate the account. Bizarrely, Mega's encryption is being cited as a key problem.
“MEGA has demonstrated that it is as compliant with its legal obligations as USA cloud storage services operated by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Dropbox, Box, Spideroak etc, but PayPal has advised that MEGA’s ‘unique encryption model’ presents an insurmountable difficulty,” Mega explains.
A single old senator can force the biggest payment processors to stop doing business with a customer, without any trial? Kim Jong-un would be proud.