Data Sovereignty Around the World

Imagine that the data that you own is just like you. In the same way that you are subject to the laws that exist where you live, different countries have specific laws that determine how data residing in that country can be treated and stored, as well as what needs to be done to protect it.

But just like you, data can move around, especially in the age of the cloud, in which services and infrastructure can exist anywhere in the world. This makes it especially important to determine whose data sovereignty you fall under at any given point in time. There are more than 100 countries with data sovereignty laws, making these legalistic constraints extremely difficult to navigate.

As a consequence, data sovereignty has been conceived to govern adherence to local regulations around the collecting, storing and processing of this data.