Mastodawn

Trying to put together a few slides about "data sovereignty" -- or, more generally, legal and social and ethical concerns of distributed systems (especially when they get ever larger).

Does anyone have readings or data to suggest?

E.g. I'd be especially interested in illustrating the historical decline of e.g. in-house or ISP-provided services, and the rise of the hyperscaler-backed equivalents e.g. Gmail / Office 365 / ...

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Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿Feb 27

@stephenrkell interesting... this is a very different version of "data sovereignty" that I'm used to (I'm more familiar with it in the context of e.g. control of data by countries)... how does it relate to distributed systems?

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Stephen Kell

@pvanheus Well, the premise is that we have the regulatory / jurisdictional problem you mention largely from the increasing tendency to outsource data management (of whatever kind, i.e. across diverse applications) to hyperscale multinational service instances, rather than more traditional local approaches. That premise is certainly questionable, but it is the pattern I see....