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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.