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The Tightening Sovereignty Landscape
Between 2011 and 2025, countries with data protection laws grew from 76 to 120+. The direction of travel is not toward harmonization — toward divergence. Each jurisdiction has added requirements that go beyond the minimum standard, creating a compliance landscape where cloud-based PII tools with centralized data processing face increasing difficulty meeting the strictest jurisdictional requirements.
The GDPR established the floor for EU data protect...