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 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Anupam Chander is Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Professor and Director of the ...

As Nigeria’s digital financial ecosystem grows, regulators, including the CBN, NITDA, SEC, and NAICOM, have increasingly ...

Clear, forward-looking data policies are not obstacles to innovation” The surge of artificial intelligence use in the Philippines is already embedded in ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said recently that he recognized the growing chorus of Indian voices demanding data localization, but asserted that meeting those demands could establish dangerous ...

Credit: Illustration by Catherine Putz. Under pressure from the COVID-19 economic downturn, China’s authorities revealed mild interest in exploring less restrictive data localization measures. Global ...

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 ...