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Data Sovereignty Is Not About Where Your Data Sleeps

Data residency is not data sovereignty. Real control means knowing who can access, use, change, export and recover your data, models, logs, keys and workflows. In AI, sovereignty is not location. It is retained agency.
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Data Sovereignty Is Not About Where Your Data Sleeps
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