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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Companies should expect to face a trio of trends in 2024 that make data security, protection, and compliance more critical to operations and risk reduction. Increasingly, governments worldwide are ...

Microsoft has ticked off the second phase of its rollout of a data localization offering in the European Union. The latest deployment to the “EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud”, as it brands ...

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.