By Andrea Little Limbago, Chief Social Scientist, Virtru
Limbago presented during the Governance, Risk and Compliance track at the 2019 (ISC)2 Security Congress in Orlando. The session, Global Factors Driving Data Privacy Regulation, explained data localization, how it is progressing and what that means for organizations. In two parts, Limbago recounts the information covered in her session.
In the previous post, we discussed the growing influence of digital authoritarianism, which has now contributed to nine consecutive years of a decline in internet freedoms across the globe. We’ll now turn to two other competing global influences that are further shaping data protection – data localization and free flows of secure data. Absent a federal data protection regulation on global engagement, security and privacy in the United States, we will continue to be influenced by these external forces.
Data Localization
Data localization – data storage within sovereign borders – is a core contributor to a fractured global internet and has been on the rise for the last decade. While not all data localization is equal, authoritarian governments leverage data localization for greater information control within their borders.
Increasingly, many of the new data localization policies (e.g., new laws in Vietnam and Thailand) fall under broader cybersecurity legislation that also involves elements of censorship, especially with regard to controlling anti-government rhetoric. Russia’s n ..
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