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The point about requirements to physically store data in a country seems especially silly. Instead of "if you operate in our country, you have to store that da
by joefkelley 9y ago
The point about requirements to physically store data in a country seems especially silly.
Instead of "if you operate in our country, you have to store that data in our country", why wouldn't it be "if you operate in our country, you must agree to give us all access to that data as if it were physically in our country".
It would be the exact same in practice (minus network latency) but without the security concerns and business barriers brought up in the blog post.
- e12e 9y agoI don't know. Say medical journals - in case of a war, where fiber cables are cut; it'd be nice to still know how to treat people. Consider that in the 80s, Iraq would've been considered a US ally - how might storing most of financial and municipal data in US datacenters have affected the later invasions? We like to think about the current "post globalisation"-world as a peaceful one - but it's only true until it isn't. And there are still areas where national interests remain important.