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Re:Russia Threatens to Shut Facebook Over Local Data Storage... by smueller1234 on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:46AM (#15345419)
Geo-IP minus any cases of "we know they're not Russian" due to accounts/etc.

In other words: as conservative as possible heuristics.

Edit: Clarification. Simply having an account on some website is obviously not what I meant. I meant cases where we legitimately have and are allowed to use (see GDPR consent requirements wrt what you can and can not do with PII under EU regulations) users' PII to decide this.

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Re:Russia Threatens to Shut Facebook Over Local Data Storage... by int_19h on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @05:09AM (#15346052)
Is there a case where "you know they're Russian", but geo-IP doesn't support that?
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Re:Russia Threatens to Shut Facebook Over Local Data Storage... by smueller1234 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:38PM (#15360525)
What I wrote earlier ought to be symmetrical. But in practice, having certainty is exceedingly rare. It's not like we require passports for our service.

What I meant is more that simply because an existing customer uses the services while travelling on Russia, we don't just move all data there.

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