Bangalore: Snowden’s revelations were expected to impact businesses all around. And a recent survey conducted by a Canadian firm solidifies it further by revealing that about one-fourth of the British and Canadian companies now want their data taken out of the U.S., reports Gigaom.

This new survey shows the disclosures about NSA’s heavy monitoring of millions of U.S. citizens and corporations under its PRISM project is starting to hit home. The hosting provider Peer1, surveyed 300 businesses in the UK and Canada and found 25 percent of those companies intended to move their data away from the United States citing NSA fears. The country’s anti-terrorism laws force companies located in the U.S. to grant the government complete access to their data, should they ask for it.

The survey also showed that 4 in 5 businesses gave privacy laws the top priority while considering the location to place their data, and a majority even willed to sacrifice some latency in order to preserve the integrity of the data. While, some are informed, other companies admitted to not knowing enough about data protection laws. It is yet to be seen if these corporations will actually go forth and shift their data centers elsewhere.

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