It has been six months since the U.S. Congress enacted the CLOUD Act, which authorizes the U.S. government to create executive agreements with foreign governments to enable law enforcement access to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Numerous countries around the world, as well as the European Union, have enacted laws to encourage or require that data generated in a particular place be stored within their jurisdiction, and place ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Anupam Chander is Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Professor and Director of the ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A panel working on the Indian government's cloud computing policy wants data generated in India to be stored within the country, according to its draft report seen by Reuters, a ...