Although data sovereignty is a complex legal issue, ScramFS allows you to comply with various laws relating to data storage through one very simple philosophy:

You have 100% control over your data and where you put it.

ScramFS allows you to solve data sovereignty issues by giving you freedom of choice as to where you store your data. In particular, you can choose the best public cloud solution to comply with local regulations, or host your own private cloud storage server to retain full control of your data.

More generally, we offer the following observations about data sovereignty and why it’s important to consider. We see two reasons to be concerned about where you store your data:

1. In the case of health, financial, classified and government data, it’s likely that your home country has laws about where such data can be stored. Oftentimes laws may state that the data must be stored within the home country’s borders – ruling out many cloud services that store data in offshore data centres.
2. The governing laws regarding the privacy of the information are unclear. Until recently, it was common belief that if your data was stored in a foreign country, it was governed by the laws of that country. However, in a recent case involving Microsoft and the FBI, U.S. courts ruled in 2014 that Microsoft could be compelled to hand over data stored in an Irish data centre. But in 2016, that decision was overturned by an appeals court.

We have written an article about data sovereignty, and recommend you read it to understand the issues you may face.