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Many countries have data residency laws (their citizen PII data cannot leave that country). https://incountry.com/blog/data-residency-laws-by-country-overview/

• pylua 2y ago
  The U.S. needs this!
• ryandrake 2y ago
  What does that even mean, though? Data does not have a location. It's just information. The fact that "I live on 123 Oak Street" is data. It's not anywhere. How can you say that it's in a particular country? This post might be read by people all across the world. Now that information is in many different countries? Or none at all? Is it simply about where the physical hard drive containing a textual representation of that data is located? What makes that relevant? These laws seem to have been written for the age of fax machines, not for today.
  • peterpost2 2y ago
    This is clearly about where the information is stored.. And therefore under which jurisdiction and laws it falls.