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0 pointsocdtrekkie5y ago0 comments

The Internet was always supposed to be federated/decentralized. The idea of megacorps centralizing all of your data isn't the Internet. And the fact that we live in the real world and the Internets servers exist in countries subject to various laws, there was no way a global Internet was going to ever be without any sort of borders.

The idea that the Internet is universally global and where your data is doesn't matter is idealistic fiction, not reality.

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manigandham5y ago· 3 in thread

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.

ocdtrekkieOP5y ago

Your 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.

manigandham5y ago

If 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.

zupa-hu5y ago

Not 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.

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