Data Sovereignty definition

Data Sovereignty means, for the purposes of this Agreement, the rights of Aboriginal peoples to govern and control the collection, ownership and application of data (information and knowledge) about their communities, peoples, cultural heritage, Traditional Owner Knowledge and traditional cultural expressions;

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Data Sovereignty means that data are subject to the laws of the place where they were collected. For example, due to the GDPR, companies have certain responsibilities pertaining to data about European users that they may not have for data about users outside the EU. In a fairness and ethics context, “data sovereignty” is often implied to mean “indigenous data sovereignty.” This is the idea that indigenous nations should have control over what data are collected about them and how those data should and should not be used. In NLP, this means centering the needs of the community in research on low-resource or indigenous languages, rather than treating language data as an exploitable resource. Steven Bird has an excellent paper on decolonial NLP [2] and the CARE guidelines [6] provide a framework for ethically working with indigenous communities and their data.

Examples of Data Sovereignty in a sentence

• Data Sovereignty and Accuracy The Data Recipient acknowledges that it must use the Resultant Data in accordance with the approved Data Sharing Request Form (Exhibit A) and pursuant to the IRB request or approval (Exhibit D), if relevant and appropriate, and that the Data Recipient may only receive and use the Resultant Data for the purposes approved by the Participating Agencies.

• This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop their cultural traditions and customs, and Data Sovereignty.

• Ongoing improvements to the Legal Assistance Service Data including consideration of Indigenous Data Sovereignty.

• Applicable Laws, applicable Data Sovereignty, Data Retention, Data Residency, and Jurisdiction/Geographically applicable Compliance Requirements.

• The Parties recognise the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including those rights associated with Data Sovereignty.

• Data Sovereignty and Accuracy The Data Recipient acknowledges that it must use the Resultant Data in accordance with the approved Data Sharing Request Form (Exhibit A) and pursuant to the IRB request or approval (Exhibit D), if relevant and appropriate, and that the Data Recipient may only receive and use the Resultant Data for the purposes approved by the Participating Agency.

• D6 This Schedule aims to support Priority Reform Four of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap and Indigenous Data Sovereignty.

• Exploiting Distributed, Hetero- geneous and Sensitive Data Stocks While Maintaining the Owner’s Data Sovereignty.

• The Parties will have regard to these rights when obtaining, using, applying or making publicly available data in respect of which Traditional Owners assert Data Sovereignty.

• They note that in the context of this inquiry: Tino rangatiratanga and mana motuhake in the contemporary digital domain means the mana to control and manage according to your own preferences, [and] requires the development of a tikanga-based regime for regulating the digital ecosys- tem that recognises Māori Data Sovereignty, Māori Data Governance, and collective concepts of privacy.