Well if data wasn't being mishandled, poorly managed and devalued without any legal repercussion we wouldn't have reached this point. Plus it's not in $country

Well if data wasn't being mishandled, poorly managed and devalued without any legal repercussion we wouldn't have reached this point. Plus it's not in $country is in $region, if all countries made an effort to adopt GDPR data could be stored anywhere. EU is looking for their citizens data, since no one else seems to care that much (other than China but for completely different reasons). Unless you think that the protocol of tech giants to poor data protection is fine, when they are saying: "Ups, we're sorry :(... it won't happen again!"