I mean that's how FB actually makes their money but FB's backend is globally replicated database which is the transfer they're talking about so this statement isn't really nefarious. It's just there's a lot of cross-polination of user-data on a social network and segmenting it out is kinda dumb.
Like if you architected it so that every user has a home country and enforced data locality then FB needs a datacenter in every country they operate in and a US user viewing a UK profile needs to (in my view arbitrarily) go across the Atlantic ocean just so that you can play jurisdictional games with no actual security boundary. It's still all Facebook, and it's the same cross-pollination there was before, every country will need to access every other country's data and a malicious US could still force FB to produce the data of UK users but it feels better?
Spivak|5 years ago
Like if you architected it so that every user has a home country and enforced data locality then FB needs a datacenter in every country they operate in and a US user viewing a UK profile needs to (in my view arbitrarily) go across the Atlantic ocean just so that you can play jurisdictional games with no actual security boundary. It's still all Facebook, and it's the same cross-pollination there was before, every country will need to access every other country's data and a malicious US could still force FB to produce the data of UK users but it feels better?
kube-system|5 years ago
There are still corporations that exist that offer other types of services though.