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Well you don't want your engineers to be awake doing something at midnight Saturday, and you want some leeway if it doesn't work correctly so you don't have to deal with the consequences of breaking the law. Especially because there's significant pressure from your vendors who don't want to be liable.

Killing something only a few hours before it's legally required isn't early.

The US Virgin Islands are an hour ahead of Eastern time.

Is it still called stealing when the users carelessly whack the "allow" buttons and grant permission to the app to siphon up whatever it wants?