Sovereignty: the first steps

The 1984 Apple commercial is legendary!

A young girl throws a hammer into a screen, breaking the control of corporate power. When I started writing this blog about sovereignty, that image popped into my head. Sovereignty, or digital sovereignty, is a term we hear a lot these days. What does it actually mean? And why is everyone talking about it?

At first, I thought it was just about making sure personal data doesn’t fall under the US Cloud Act, which allows the US government to access it. But that’s not what digital sovereignty is really about.