I think more and more you may find it becomes popular to mandate a user&#x27;s data be retained in their country of origin. Otherwise some sort of agreement would need to be made that a foreign citizen&#x27;s data on a corporate data center is like an embassy... it&#x27;s digitally treated like it&#x27;s on that nation&#x27;s soil, and subject to that nation&#x27;s laws.<p>The latter is likely much less practical in the real world, because our spy agencies don&#x27;t really care where your data is, they&#x27;re going to try and collect it, and the EU has made it clear that isn&#x27;t okay with them.<p>In an ideal world, the United States and other major nations would all sign privacy laws as strong as the EU&#x27;s. But I can&#x27;t see that happening in our current political climate. Parties on both sides are more than happy to strip us of our privacy. And corporations oppose it as well.