> they would only be legal to use as long as no personal information is ever stored on any of their servers, which in practice renders them useless
Or if their servers are physically located under the country's jurisdiction.
Or if their servers are physically located under the country's jurisdiction.
Oh, it's enough. If a server is in your jurisdiction, you just mandate that there is to be no foreign access to any data concerning your citizens. Just like that.
The international network we know and love will one day be fractured into many regional networks as governments seek to impose their laws on it. This is inevitable.