“Digital sovereignty” has become a buzzword of the new European policies and rules on data governance. This discourse, however, is not entirely new. Already at the dawn of data protection laws in Europe, information sovereignty was one of the concerns that regulation of personal data flows...

Public policy interests implicated by international data governance and data flows, indispensable for the global governance of AI, stretch far beyond issues of economic growth and development. They also involve a broader set of national and regional priorities, such as national security,...