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Nothing is stopping these countries from doing this already. China, Saudi Arabia, Iran already consider forcing tech companies to track user activity. At the end of the day these companies are subject to laws of the country they do business in and this has already screwed over HK, Uigher, Iranian, Egyptian citizens. Laws forcing data to be stored in given regions alongside encryption keys has already made it dangerous to be homosexual in these countries you’ve mentioned (except Iran which most businesses cannot do business in)


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