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IAPP EU Data Protection Congress 2025: Cybersecurity trumps sovereignty?

Results of keynote debate audience poll at the IAPP 2025 EU Data Congress
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Geopolitics, innovation, digital infrastructure, new technologies, and more: The keynote debate highlighted tensions behind the deceptively simple concept of data sovereignty.

The opening keynote conversation with data privacy regulators focusing on enforcement, simplification of regulation, and data sovereignty was followed by an engaging keynote debate. The proposition put forward to the debaters and the audience was: “This Congress believes that the EU should embrace EU technologies to better respect fundamental rights