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Is India becoming a victim of digital colonialism through AI and foreign owned Data centers?

India's data sovereignty policy should be aiming to ensure that the country maintains control over its citizens' data, essential information, and digital infrastructure. This protects national security, economic interests, privacy, and prevents undue foreign influence (e.g., from big tech data centers or foreign governments through laws like the US CLOUD Act). These policies could treat data as a strategic national asset, like a natural resource. Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal in 2018 became a flashpoint that amplified these fears, showing how personal data (often stored in big tech’s global data centers) could influence elections, public opinion, and national politics without accountability. In this program we discuss that how we should see this as “digital colonialism”—big tech extracts value from local data without reinvesting locally, exacerbating dependencies. China enforces strict localization and control; India should treat data as a “sovereign asset”; Europe pursues “digital sovereignty” to counter US dominance. Many countries now demand local data centers from big tech (e.g., Nigeria pushing Google/Microsoft/Amazon for in-country facilities) to prevent “stealing” sovereignty via offshore control.