The pressure to put data centers in more countries is giving rise to what rapidly is becoming one of the world’s most important human rights issues. With everyone’s personal information stored in the cloud, an authoritarian regime bent on broad surveillance can unleash draconian demands to monitor not only what people are communicating, but even what they’re reading and watching online. And armed with this knowledge, governments can prosecute, persecute, or even execute those individuals they consider threats. This is a fundamental fact of life that everyone who works in the tech sector needs
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