Microsoft and Google may have to surrender peopleโs data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there::Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.
For those who keep parroting that poor big-tech has to respect local cultures and laws and that thereโs nothing they could do, I remind you that atheists are literally considered terrorists in Saudi Arabia. So in theory, a court order could only invoke anti-terrorism as the motive and compel Google and Microsoft to hand over private conversations of suspected atheists and these companies would then say they did nothing wrong because they just complied with an anti-terrorism search warrant.
Not doing business in a country that is not your own is the easiest thing anyone can do.
