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There are two entities in question: you and the object.

You are within the jurisdiction of the U.S. And can be held in contempt, charged (even in absentia), etc.

The object is now within the jurisdiction of Mexico so it gets complicated. A Mexican court can be petitioned to require the entity that (unwittingly or not) possesses it to turn it over, etc.

The difference with data Ina server is that a company has the power to turn it over regardless of where it's stored and the U.S. Government is having their hat on that.

By physically locating servers in other jurisdictions you have to comply with their laws too and that gets complicated. You can end up Ina situation where one government doesn't recognize the authority of the other and you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Personally I find the constant overreach of the U.S. Government to be appalling and entirely short term I it's thinking.



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