An unwanted update to your Google Account
I understand the author's frustration. But until someone finds out how a company that operates globally can satisfy the laws of the countries their customers are located in without associating the accounts with a country, I'm not sure what we can do.<p>> What I find curious is that it says the services are essentially the same between different countries. So, there is no advantage to me as a consumer for anything to change.<p>The advantage to the consumer is that they have access to the services at all. Countries have the ability to completely cut off their citizens to a service if they don't follow their laws.