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 ...

As Nigeria’s digital financial ecosystem grows, regulators, including the CBN, NITDA, SEC, and NAICOM, have increasingly ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

Clear, forward-looking data policies are not obstacles to innovation” The surge of artificial intelligence use in the Philippines is already embedded in ...