What is digital sovereignty?
Digital sovereignty is the ability to keep control of your data, your tools and your digital choices, without depending on a player subject to foreign law. It concerns states, but also each of us: choosing who hosts your email is already an act of sovereignty.
Information verified on July 13, 2026
Keeping control of your data and your digital tools, including when a foreign player, company or state, would like to access them. That’s digital sovereignty: being able to decide who hosts your information, under which laws, and being able to change your mind without losing everything. In other words: choosing knowingly, and keeping a way out.
It mostly comes up for states, their administrations, their health records. But the question also arises at your scale, that of an ordinary individual. Your emails, your photos and your calendar live with whom, and under which law? If the answer is “one American company for everything”, your personal sovereignty is close to zero. The good news: it can be won back, service by service.
Where it plays out: the personal digital sovereignty page is the full version of this definition, legal scenario included. The book makes it a method, and the How to leave Google guide turns the principle into action.
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