Data Sovereignty

Data sovereignty refers to the idea that data are governed by the laws and political systems of the country in which they are collected. Data security, cloud computing, network sovereignty, and technological sovereignty are all strongly related to the idea of data sovereignty. Data sovereignty is especially concerned with issues related to the data itself, in contrast to technological sovereignty, which is ill-defined and can be used as a catch-all phrase in policymaking. Data sovereignty is typically considered in one of two ways: in regard to Indigenous communities and their independence from post-colonial nations, or in reference to transnational data flow. Data sovereignty is the idea that data is subject to the laws and governance structures within one nation.

Technological Drawback

Data sovereignty is frequently criticized by business actors for impeding and maybe destroying cloud computing processes. It is stated that governance of cloud computing is challenging under laws governing data sovereignty since cloud storage may be spread and distributed in numerous locations at any given moment. Data stored on the cloud, for instance, may be legal in some jurisdictions but prohibited in others.