This brings up an interesting issue with multinationals...
How do you react when you receive compulsory orders in one country of operation that violates laws of another?
There's a solution to that. Do not store data from a customer from one country, in another region.
Actually, the biggest european hosting company, OVH, is doing just that in order to launch in North America, and protect its European, Canadian, and USA customers:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...