Where is Data Regulatory Compliance Worth the Cost?

1 · CockroachDB · March 19, 2019, midnight
In 2016, LinkedIn chose not to comply with Russia’s requirement for data to be stored locally. As a result, they were kindly blocked from doing business in the country. Facebook and Twitter, on the other hand, both decided that compliance in Russia is worth the effort. Neither has fully met Russia’s requirements but they have shown enough progress to avoid being blocked. This is an example of the kind of decision that data localization laws force companies to make....