Google plans to move UK users' accounts outside EU jurisdiction
The optics of this might look bad, but I cannot really fault Google for this move (and I frequently fault Google).<p>They're facing a dilemma of regulatory uncertainty, and this move resolves this dilemma for them (at least, they seem to believe that).<p>Anyone who has ever dealt with powerful regulatory agencies will probably agree that this <i>resolution</i> is the right move for the company, a move important enough that eating some bad PR is probably totally worth it.<p>(The point about powerful regulatory agencies is not that it's hard to stay compliant; it's that the costs, overhead, bureaucracy etc. of demonstrating this compliance is immense, even if you are doing everything 100% right.)