To unpack the concept of data sovereignty or digital sovereignty, one must first recall the historical importance and powerful hold on the political discourse of the concept of sovereignty itself. It emerged progressively, especially in Europe, through centuries of struggles between power regimes and intense philosophical and political debates, as evidenced by the writings of Jean Bodin, Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau (Bodin & Jean, 1992; Putterman, 2010). Sovereignty is a term that can be applied to any situation where a person or organization can act autonomously and without interference from outside forces. The traditional concept of sovereignty was heavily inspired by Jean Bodin (Bodin & Jean, 1992), who believed that the ultimate decision-making power and exclusive right to use force in a state should be held by the ruler or sovereign. Rousseau (Putterman, 2010), a French philosopher of the Enlightenment, introduced a dramatic shift in the notion of sovereignty, from the rule of the ruler to that of the people, in his writings. Modern democracies gave rise to the concept that the people, in his view, had the ultimate authority in the state, but that they may delegate its execution to a sovereign or elected government (Linkov & Kott, 2019).