Why personal data has become a matter of national policy
By Anirban Mukherji, Founder & CEO, miniOrange
The next great geopolitical argument may not be about oil, territory, or shipping lanes. It may be about something far less visible: where a person’s data sits, who can access it and which country’s laws govern it.
That sounds like a question for lawyers and privacy officers. Increasingly, it is not. When someone opens a bank account, orders a product, visits a hospital or asks an AI assistant a question, their information can move through payment processors, cloud platforms, analytics systems, software vendors and artificial intelligence services, potentially touching several jurisdictions along the way. For the individual, this movement is almost invisible. For governments, it is becoming a matter of national consequence.
Personal data has moved from the privacy policy to the center of national policy because it now sits at the intersection of commerce, technology, security and sovereignty.
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