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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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.

The movement to localize some or all of internet data has grown over the past five years as countries introduce new laws restricting data flows, and others try to boost local businesses by placing ...

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 ...

Although data privacy regulation justifiably garners the most attention, potentially as impactful—indeed, disruptive—to the entire payments industry ecosystem is data localization. Payment industry ...

In today's digital world, where data flows seamlessly across borders, privacy has become a critical issue for organizations. The trend toward data localization, driven by state security, intelligence ...

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

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 ...

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