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There's plenty of space between the extremes of centralized data and being stored in the same country as the user. Freedom to store and process in more logical
by manigandham 6y ago
There's plenty of space between the extremes of centralized data and being stored in the same country as the user.
Freedom to store and process in more logical, secure and efficient places is a good thing.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoYour user will almost always benefit from the data being stored in the same country as them. Using an app across an ocean tends to suck. And the user gets to benefit from their country's consumer protection laws. Which is to say, the only parties that benefit from being able to store your data in other countries is often global monopolies shifting your data to where they have the least legal oversight.
- zupa-hu 6y agoNot necessarily true. “Your user” is not one person, but potentially many. You may want to store the data in multiple locations to benefit them all.
- manigandham 6y agoIf you can legislate data location then it's better to just legislate access and privacy rights to that data instead of the location. Forcing data to be stored within borders just makes it harder, more expensive, and more inefficient to serve more customers for no real security benefit. And a company with illegitimate operations isn't going to be following these guidelines anyway.