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Are you suggesting that users should be banned from using internet services that are run from other countries?
by fauigerzigerk 10y ago
Are you suggesting that users should be banned from using internet services that are run from other countries?
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoNo, but if I voluntarily use another countries' web service, I'd say I'm handing data over to that country's jurisdiction. We should be wary of companies who can't even guarantee our data is remaining within the boundaries of our own laws. A lot of the "cloud" is an obfuscation. At the end of the day, our data lives on hard drives on servers that are physically somewhere. We should know where that is, and what laws apply to it. When I selected a web hosting provider, I picked the one that disclosed it's datacenter location, the physical security and environmental protection measures, etc. I know the physical place I am entrusting my data to.
- fauigerzigerk 10y ago>We should be wary of companies who can't even guarantee our data is remaining within the boundaries of our own laws. Global companies cannot always guarantee that because they operate under a large number of sometimes contradictory laws that keep changing all the time. Also, if you consider a web app that lets users communicate with each other then the jurisdictions involved might be all of the following: 1) The web site owner's jurisdiction. 2) The hosting firm's jurisdiction. 3) The jursidiction of every single user. And all of these jurisdictions may have agreements governing data exchange and law enforcement. This is bound to be extremely complicated.