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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Cyberspace, as many liberal democratic governments see it, is inherently free and open, a boon to democracy that states should not control. Russia, which does not share this view, worries that ...

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 ...

Cloudflare NET, one of the world’s largest website security companies, recently launched the Cloudflare Data Localization Suite (“DLS”) in three new Asian countries — Australia, India and Japan — to ...

As the internet has grown to be an integral part of society, so too have the needs of citizens, companies, and governments to consider how and where data is stored and who has access to it. Whether ...

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 ...

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