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TACTICS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS
Data Sovereignty: Does It Matter Where Your Data Goes?
Nobody sees where their data goes. It’s a bit like giving strangers full access to your Google Drive. Wouldn’t you feel naked doing this?
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Elon Musk throttling Starlink in Ukraine? Meta reading your WhatsApp messages to train its AI models? Your customer contracts being uploaded to ChatGPT or Claude to answer legal questions? Your face being filmed by smart glasses without your consent?
These are all questions of data sovereignty, and they are just a small sample. Data sovereignty touches almost every aspect of modern life.
You still want a definition, despite the examples? Data sovereignty is the ability to decide where your data resides and which legal system applies to it.
Bulky, isn’t it? Let’s break down the topic using some real-life examples.
Customer Requests
Let’s start with my role as the Founder & CEO of Yonder, a B2B SaaS company. Many of our customers have strict requirements on the storage location of their data and the way we…
