Data Sovereignty
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The principle that data generated within a country's borders is governed by that nation's laws and regulatory frameworks, giving the state control over access, storage, and usage of data created in its territory. Global data sovereignty debates accelerated sharply after the 2013 Snowden revelations, leading to the EU's GDPR, the US CLOUD Act, and data sovereignty legislation in over 100 countries. With the ubiquity of cloud computing, where data is stored and processed across borders, the gap between physical storage location (data residency) and legal control has become a central tension.
Sources
- Wikipedia (EN) core definition, history (Snowden catalyst, Microsoft v. US, more than 100 countries with sovereignty laws), relationship to data residency/localization, GDPR, CLOUD Act, Indigenous data sovereignty
- Wikipedia (KO) Korean Wikipedia entry confirming the concept and its distinction from technological sovereignty
- ibm.com definition, distinction between data sovereignty / data residency / data localization, sovereign cloud concept, GDPR compliance requirements
- jtde.telsoc.org David Vaile, 'The Cloud and data sovereignty after Snowden', Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy: Snowden revelations as catalyst, jurisdictional questions of data location vs. control, characterization as Data Sovereignty vs. Digital Protectionism