Data governance - Concept
Data sovereignty
Which country’s laws and legal powers apply to data
What's it for?
Shows which country's laws may apply to information, even when it is stored somewhere else.
For example…
A firm worries a US parent company could be ordered to hand over UK customer files, so it seeks contractual and technical limits on that reach
A UK company checks whether using a foreign cloud provider could make its customer data subject to another country's legal access powers
Think of it like…
Storing valuables in a safe abroad: the safe's address matters less than whose court can open it