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Jurisdictions
Articles on the legal regimes under which PressExile operates — the courts that hear the next subpoena and the constitutional instruments that frame the answer.
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Jurisdictional drift 2024-2026 — Iceland, Switzerland, and the EU treaty layer
Legal developments that shifted civil-liberties hosting assumptions in Iceland and Switzerland over 2024-2026 — the Swiss revFADP entry into force, the BÜPF revision question, the EU e-Evidence Regulation, NIS2, and the Cybercrime Convention's Second Additional Protocol.
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Migrating an investigative archive to offshore hosting
A fourteen-day sequence for moving an investigative archive — a journalist's corpus, a leak-aggregator's repository, an NGO's case-files — from a commercial host to offshore civil-liberties hosting, with notes on the OPSEC, legal, and chain-of-custody dimensions vendor runbooks omit.
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After Snowden: what changed in privacy hosting
An editorial reading of the structural changes the 2013 Snowden disclosures produced in the privacy-hosting industry, what those changes did and did not accomplish, and what the PressExile operator considers the unfinished work of the post-2013 settlement.
13 min read
Choosing a jurisdiction: Iceland versus Switzerland for civil-liberties hosting
A side-by-side reading of the two jurisdictions in which PressExile operates — the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative against the Swiss constitutional telecommunications-secrecy clause, with notes on what each posture protects and what it does not.
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Why offshore hosting matters for journalism
A sober account of the structural reasons an investigative newsroom benefits from hosting outside the jurisdiction in which its adversaries operate, drawn from the post-Snowden record and the operational decisions a small operator can make.