This sure got a lot of people fired up as apparently in places like Australia they were proposing a law where people have to provide government ID to companies like Google I order to use their search engine. Wouldn’t matter if it’s someone looking for cooking recipes or a criminal researching about weapons, there would be virtually no privacy. So imagine that as a business where you are now forced to obtain all this information just to do business when that was never your intent. Would you still run the business in that country or would you exit?
The only other recent topic of laws making companies not want to do business with a country that I remember was about displaying news on social media sites where the argument was they need to pay a tax of sort for doing so as it helps to pay for the media companies doing the work. Instead, they just blocked off all news posts in those countries.
I don’t think the average person would like this idea too much as well. So what would you do as a company? I’m pretty sure billion dollar companies will abide to it as there is money to be made. But for smaller businesses the decision is tougher as one doesn’t have the flexibility to just rebel per se. Feels like it would create so much new liability too in terms of having to store all that sensitive data.