Threat to individual freedom --- Agree with the discussion here but want to add a con to data localisation - it could be a potential threat to individual freedom. More and more, countries are using personal data of their citizens to track, monitor and carry out surveillance against them. Being able to use foreign servers and VPNs are an important security measure that many dissidents undertake as a way to protect themselves to some extent as they can hope this data will not be handed over to govts as easily if the govt had jurisdictional control of these companies. This would be lost to data localisation.

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