Since the Charlie Hebdo attacks last month, the French government is considering requiring greater website blocking by Internet companies, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has suggested banning ...

Storing user data in a datacenter on the Internet that is physically situated in the same country where the data originated. People who fear losing private data to hackers favor data localization.

You’re probably all too familiar with the challenges of crossing international borders—long queues, restrictions on destinations, impacts on employment clearances and the threat of invasive searches.

In the wake of revelations that the U.S. and UK governments regularly monitor private communications — including Internet usage, GPS data, and cell information — a number of countries are considering ...

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Microsoft has ticked off the second phase of its rollout of a data localization offering in the European Union. The latest deployment to the “EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud”, as it brands ...

Anupam Chander is Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Professor and Director of the California International Law Center at UC Davis School of Law. He is the recipient of a Google Research Award ...

Data localization, the mandate that data of a country’s citizens be stored within the borders of that country, is a thorny issue dividing policymakers across the globe. In the global policy arena, ...

As India builds its data protection regime and contemplates the vast range of issues involved, one issue has emerged in the spotlight: data localization. It’s all the rage. The Ministry of Electronics ...

Companies should expect to face a trio of trends in 2024 that make data security, protection, and compliance more critical to operations and risk reduction. Increasingly, governments worldwide are ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In keeping with the increasing importance of data in the global economy, governments have become more given to putting restrictions on ...