The Bermudan government developing the capability to remotely detect illegal activity inside a USA-headquartered (but Bermuda-flagged) megacorp’s satellite seems even more unlikely.
… but that only applies if the illegal activity stays inside the satellite. Presumably your data center is interesting because it communicates with something on Earth. People can say, “Hey, Bermuda, we’re getting spam from your satellite, clean it up.”. Or cut off the downlink. Not to say that the international thing wouldn’t be a giant impediment to enforcement, but I don’t think it’s the same as somebody dumping fuel in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
I guess it all depends on the type of illegal activity! For spam—certainly. But for hacking, covertly developing malicious software, covertly developing bioweapons, covertly training AIs on scraped/pirated intellectual property*, conducting research in banned fields/topics, etc. I imagine probably not?
(* I have no idea whether this is even a crime—and if it is I’m not entirely convinced it should be! - but if it’s not I’m sure there are other things you could do with an AI that don’t have to leave the datacentre to be illegal)
… but that only applies if the illegal activity stays inside the satellite. Presumably your data center is interesting because it communicates with something on Earth. People can say, “Hey, Bermuda, we’re getting spam from your satellite, clean it up.”. Or cut off the downlink. Not to say that the international thing wouldn’t be a giant impediment to enforcement, but I don’t think it’s the same as somebody dumping fuel in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
I guess it all depends on the type of illegal activity! For spam—certainly. But for hacking, covertly developing malicious software, covertly developing bioweapons, covertly training AIs on scraped/pirated intellectual property*, conducting research in banned fields/topics, etc. I imagine probably not?
(* I have no idea whether this is even a crime—and if it is I’m not entirely convinced it should be! - but if it’s not I’m sure there are other things you could do with an AI that don’t have to leave the datacentre to be illegal)