'Data embassies' promise bubbles of digital sovereignty, but India just cooled on the idea Embassies are bubbles of sovereignty that local authorities cannot freely enter and in which certain communications are privileged – an arrangement that is generally agreed as essential to facilitate international relations. And now the same protections are being suggested as needed to create a "data embassy" – datacenters that …
"Suggesting data embassies rely on commercial cloud providers also means those orgs can profit. Which may be why Google is keen on the idea."
I wouldn't have thought it would have been possible for any US owned cop oration to participate. Luxembourg night grant embassy rights to a data cente run by Google or any other US corporation but unless the US also does so the data centre would be at the mercy of the CLOUD Act.
"India, for example, has made sharing technical capability and free software its government developed a big part of its diplomatic outreach. By sharing tools like its Aadhaar identity-as-a-service platform or UPI payments scheme"
They're offering to do what now? For free? Beware of Geeks bearing gifts.
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