International payment systems have further been affected by the data protection law, increasing the cost of operating digital ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data localization laws — restrictions against the transfer of various kinds of personal information across national or regional boundaries — are increasingly common. These laws are driven by two ...

New Delhi: Even as Big Tech continues to oppose India’s data localization rules, the Union government is pushing companies to have adequate data storage infrastructure in the country to ensure a ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Courtney Bowman [bio], discusses the emerging trend of localized data and how corporations and governments are reacting this emerging technology… The combined forces of ...

Scrutiny of European Union's dependence on non-European cloud services is intensifying amid geopolitical tensions and rising cyber risk. U.S. hyperscalers control more than 70% of the EU cloud market, ...

The global economy increasingly depends on data flowing freely across borders, yet the number of nations with regulatory barriers preventing that from happening has nearly doubled in four years—from ...

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.

Storing user data in a data center 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.