US Diplomats Told to Piss All Over Foreign Data Laws Because Fuck Your Privacy

So apparently the US State Department has collectively lost their last remaining brain cells and decided that what the world really needs is for American diplomats to run around like headless chickens, screeching at foreign governments about how they shouldn’t dare keep their own citizens’ data within their own bloody borders.

These absolute fuckwits in Washington are absolutely shitting themselves at the thought that other countries might actually give a damn about their citizens’ privacy. “Data sovereignty”—which is just a fancy way of saying “keep your grubby NSA mitts off our servers”—is apparently too much for Uncle Sam’s delicate sensibilities. So now they’re dispatching diplo-droids to bully smaller nations into letting American tech giants and three-letter agencies continue hoovering up every digital breadcrumb like it’s an all-you-can-eat surveillance buffet.

Look, when some minister in a foreign country says “we want our citizens’ medical records to stay in our fucking country,” the US response is apparently “how dare you, that interferes with our god-given right to spy on everyone!” It’s like having a neighbor who insists on storing all his crap in your garage, and when you finally grow a spine and ask him to stop, he sends his lawyer round to explain why you’re being “anti-competitive” and “innovation-stifling.” Sod off.

The real piss-boiling kicker? They dress this shit up as “promoting the free flow of data” when what they actually mean is “we want to keep monetizing your digital souls and monitoring your porn habits without jurisdictional hassles.” Fucking hypocrites. If these diplomats spent half as much time fixing their own broken infrastructure as they do lecturing other countries about where to store their bits, maybe the State Department wouldn’t get pwned by script kiddies every other Tuesday.

At the end of the day, this is just the US throwing a tantrum because other nations are finally realizing that letting American companies store their tax records, health data, and state secrets on servers in Virginia is about as secure as leaving the crown jewels in a crack house. Grow up.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/us-tells-diplomats-to-lobby-against-foreign-data-sovereignty-laws/

Reminds me of the time I caught the CEO trying to export the entire customer database to his personal Dropbox “for weekend analysis.” When I locked his account, the pillock complained to HR about my “negative attitude.” I explained that if he wanted to play fast and loose with data sovereignty, he could do it from the server room—which I subsequently locked from the outside. With him in it. The fire department was not amused, but the backup tapes remained gloriously sovereign.

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