€1.2B GDPR fine for Meta
"The current conflict between EU privacy laws and US surveillance laws are also a problem for all other large US cloud providers, such as Microsoft, Google or Amazon"<p>Globalised tech companies caught in the middle here, hard to see how they can continue to service global markets without a huge per-country localisation effort. Ones that could do it will increase cost (passed onto users of course), those that cannot withdraw from the market, furthering the fragmentation of the global internet. May not be a bad thing overall, especially for local players and for national sovereignty evangelists