> or even creating dystopian proposals like the ones from many EU based countries (hello Germany) that propose that the data will never leave the EU.
I could call this proposal many unpleasant things, but "dystopian"? I can definitely see why people want clearer jurisdiction over the flow of their personal data, and that intention is anything but dystopian.
how would you guarantee that packets never leave a country without balkanizing the net. It's just another proposal for more centralization and walled gardens. "E-Mail made in Germany" was all the rage in 2013 after Snowden.
It's an absolutely ludicrous idea. A wet dream conceived in the boardrooms of Telekom and 1und1 during a time when nobody had an answer to reduce blanket surveillance. It's dystopian not in a sense that it would be impossible to implement but because it would be a knee-jerk reaction that wouldn't solve the underlying issues.
I could call this proposal many unpleasant things, but "dystopian"? I can definitely see why people want clearer jurisdiction over the flow of their personal data, and that intention is anything but dystopian.