Data sovereignty
Data sovereignty is the principle that your data — and control over where it lives and who can access it — belongs to you, not to the company that happens to store it.
What it means
Data sovereignty is the idea that you retain ownership and control of your data, including where it is physically stored and which laws govern it. It is the difference between renting access to your data and owning it.
Why jurisdiction matters
Where your data lives determines who can compel access to it. Storing data with a provider in a particular country subjects it to that country’s surveillance and disclosure laws — often without your knowledge.
Why it matters
Without sovereignty, your data is only as private as a provider’s policies and the laws it operates under — both of which can change. Real control means you decide where it lives.
How Atomic Blend supports it
Because Atomic Blend is open source and self-hostable, you can keep your encrypted data entirely on infrastructure you control, in the jurisdiction you choose — true data sovereignty.