“A State Department cable instructs embassies to oppose foreign laws requiring data to be stored locally.”
Every other country in the world wants to keep its citizens’ data on its own soil, controlled by its own laws. The United States considers this an attack on American business, which is to say on the seven cloud companies that control the global data layer. The cable spells out the strategy in plain language. Whatever Brussels or Delhi or Brasilia tries, US embassies are now expected to undermine.