Late January, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice of proposed rulemaking for establishing new requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers (IaaS) . The proposal boils down to a ‘Know Your Customer’ regime for companies operating cloud services, with the goal of countering the activities of “foreign malicious actors.” Yet, despite an overseas focus, Americans won’t be able to avoid the proposal’s requirements, which covers CDNs, virtual private servers, proxies, and domain name resolution services, among others.
What would keep people living/companies working in the US from moving their infrastructure out of the country and having encrypted tunnels?
Cost. US is the biggest economy in the world and most tech companies are American. They could say if you don’t do this you can’t do business in America. Like cutting off tech companies doing business with China. It stopped non American companies.