The current climate of largely uninhibited free-flowing data around the world could soon be a thing of the past, The New York Times reports. More than 50 countries including Austria, France and South Africa have forged ahead with initiatives to control data created by citizens, government agencies and businesses. Examples of “digital sovereignty” included the Biden administration circulating a draft executive order to stop China from accessing American data and the number of global laws that require data to be stored domestically has more than doubled from 2017 to 2021.
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