Chickens coming home to roost.
The US is gradually having to accept that t doesn't actually legislate for the rest of the world - and, in some cases, that there actually is a rest of the world.
America's major tech companies are pushing back against India's proposed data protection laws, with a lobby group led by ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers emerging as the protest organiser. The move came a week after the proposals, first published at the end of July, were opened for comment by the Ministry of IT. The draft copped …
Yes, they were complacent over GDPR and now it's biting them in the arse. So they will double down in lobbying against anything similar in other parts of the world. They will discover in India, as they have with the EU, that big, valuable markets actually hold the big stick, not the global corps and those big valuable markets are actually much bigger and more valuable than they realised.
It;s a bit like the fictional EMEA that the big US corps invented for their regional accounting purposes. I don't think they had any idea that the EU could be bigger, alone, than the US domestic market so lumped in the Middle East and Africa for their own convenience. The Middle East and Africa are vastly different markets from each other and both a vastly different from the EU market and really ought to be treated separately.