Individuals are not perfectly capable of this decision, especially since they are multiple steps removed from said decision (e.g. saas I use is using another service hosted on amazon); and in a lot of the cases (e.g. using a software for their job) not even in a place where they can make the decision.
Government does not tell you where you should keep your data. They tell, where you can't.
This is because it is not a compliant place to store data at. Same reason we don't want you to store data in china, for example.
Individuals are not perfectly capable of this decision, especially since they are multiple steps removed from said decision (e.g. saas I use is using another service hosted on amazon); and in a lot of the cases (e.g. using a software for their job) not even in a place where they can make the decision.
Government does not tell you where you should keep your data. They tell, where you can't.
This is because it is not a compliant place to store data at. Same reason we don't want you to store data in china, for example.