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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On December 2, 2019, President Putin signed the law regarding the introduction of administrative fines for failure to comply with personal data localization requirements set by the Law on Personal ...

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.