Point of order: the accusation is not that Google duplicated and replicated data, some of which is outside the country. Google is being accused of intentionall

Point of order: the accusation is not that Google duplicated and replicated data, some of which is outside the country. Google is being accused of intentionally obfuscating their control of the data explicitly to avoid court-orders (and not technical reasons and common engineering approaches). ... what you're talking about should result in a logical amalgamation: data here AND data there. Google is being accused of going out of their way to create an artificial barriers to the legal system by only having data "NOT here".