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> 1. Criminalize moving PII out of the country. Please, please, don't. This forces global-scale operations to build computing in a number of places around the
by jsmthrowaway 9y ago
> 1. Criminalize moving PII out of the country.
Please, please, don't. This forces global-scale operations to build computing in a number of places around the world to comply. National boundaries are meaningless on the Internet, and we already have enough of those jurisdictions in existence that doing global-scale operations with PII or even GIS data is an international legal minefield. Do you really want to suppress startup development by forcing global services to talk to 200+ different lawyers about what they're doing, in the long term?
I've worked on products where entire datacenters are forced to exist in order to comply with a law somewhere. Like this law, which I bet you didn't even know existed:
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Google-Maps-unavailable-in-South-Korea-whereas-it-is-available-in-the-North https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Google-Maps-unavailable-in-Sout...