Why Every Company Needs A Geolocation Policy

No matter how big or small your company currently might be, your company needs a geolocation policy that takes human rights into account if you are either: (1) gathering or storing data that personally identifies your customers; or (2) providing a platform for creating or storing user generated content.

Technology companies typically first think about geolocation when they have grown to the point where they need to locate data somewhere other than their home base for redundancy reasons or to reduce network latency. While companies usually don't have much of a choice in deciding where to geo-locate their first servers (because the servers are located wherever the company was founded), companies should be conscious of the impact that the geolocation of data has on the privacy and freedom of expression rights of their users.