> I'd much rather store properly encrypted personal information or financial data in North Korea than storing it unencrypted in my home country
That encryption is pointlesss. North Korea can just demand the key and decrypt your data (assuming the company has presence in that country). Very few services have true end to end encryption. Currently it's not even feasible for healthcare data (homomorphic encryption is not practical yet).
North Korea can demand what it wants. I'm not in North Korea.
For North Koreans, all encryption is indeed pointless if the goal is to hide it from the government, regardless of where they want to store data, for this very reason.
I can implement true end-to-end encryption in about 30 minutes (only because I gotta look up where I implemented it last). I will encrypt my data using well known and validated libraries, send it over to the cloud. Retrieve when I need it and decrypt it then. Not sure what about this is not feasible.
You are moving the goal posts. Of course simple data storage can be made secure, because you have the key. But the article is talking about financial data that is processed by companies. And you mentioned healthcare data, which would also be processed. The companies have the key and they can be forced to hand it over easily.
What use is end to end encryption for your healthcare data, if nobody except you can process that data? In that case, why don't you just put it on some external hard drive?
I think the point they are making hinges on the fact that the data just has to be _stored_ there. You can do the processing outside of India, so a company can store the encrypted data in India but process the decrypted data elsewhere.
That encryption is pointlesss. North Korea can just demand the key and decrypt your data (assuming the company has presence in that country). Very few services have true end to end encryption. Currently it's not even feasible for healthcare data (homomorphic encryption is not practical yet).