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GCP and AWS both have regions in Hong Kong. If anyone was storing data for serving it to any place outside, I guess this might be a good time to shift it to som
by actuator 6y ago
GCP and AWS both have regions in Hong Kong. If anyone was storing data for serving it to any place outside, I guess this might be a good time to shift it to some neighbouring region.
Additionally many western companies have their offices in Hong Kong. Does this mean any privileged access that these offices/employees had with data is also now susceptible.
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- hkmaxpro 6y agoThe National Security Law is extraterritorial. Hosting outside of Hong Kong means nothing. https://twitter.com/alvinllum/status/1280184488857710592 https://twitter.com/alvinllum/status/1280184488857710592
- actuator 6y agoCompanies still serving to HK might be screwed anyway. I was saying that wrt companies who had infra in HK which was serving traffic outside HK. It might make sense to not keep that in HK anymore.
- toast0 6y agoHosting outside of Hong Kong is important. Hong Kong can't impound the servers if they're outside the territory, without the cooperation of the server owner/operator or the government where it resides. Of course, if the owner/operator has employees or assets in Hong Kong, those could be held to elicit cooperation.
- hkmaxpro 6y agoIt matters a bit, but not that much. Failure to comply comes with a maximum fine of HK$100,000 (US$ 12,500), plus six months imprisonment for service providers. [0] If HK police repeatedly fine a company, the company may have to stop serving HK or even China. [0] https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1536151-20200706.htm https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1536151-20200706.h...
- mc32 6y agoI think Canada suspended their extradition treaty to protect against this threat.