A checklist of things to watch for

Know Your Customer is a stringent demand but there are many implications for data sovereignty

Rather than limiting data transfer through unilateral protections, we need common standards to facilitate it

New regulations and tracing apps are taking data centers into new directions

Fitting international data into national laws will always be a problem

The changing geo-political climate could wrong-foot the technology industries

Efforts to bring the web under national laws will force data centers to stay in-country 

Data sovereignty issues will be at the fore, and data could be repatriated during the Brexit process

LinkedIn is blocked in Russia, but Moscow is only enforcing laws designed to address an international issue