Data Embassies: Purposes, Features and Limitations Digital

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A data embassy is a place within the territory of a state (the host state) that processes and/or hosts data that originates from another state (the guest state) under a legal arrangement where the transferor of the data (the customer of the data embassy) is afforded special privileges by the host state.

This fully-cited and hyperlinked publication provides an overview of the data embassy concept, including its purposes, features, limitations and analogies with diplomatic missions from which inspirations are drawn, and includes a comprehensive mapping of the two primary data embassy models in operation today.

Jurisdictions covered by the publication: Bahrain, Estonia, Monaco and Luxembourg.

Table of content

Data embassies: An overview (pp 4–45)

Estonia–Luxembourg Data Embassy Agreement (pp 46–71)

Bahrain’s Cloud Law (pp 72–127)

Monaco-Luxembourg Data Embassy Agreement (pp 128–157)

Data embassy crimes (Monaco) (pp 158–170)

Annexures

Legislative Decree No. 56 of 2018 In Respect of Providing Cloud Computing Services to Foreign Parties (pp 171–176)

Agreement between the Republic of Estonia and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on the hosting of data and information systems (pp 177–183)

Accord du 15 juillet 2021 entre la Principauté de Monaco et le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg concernant l'hébergement de données et de systèmes d'information, signé à Luxembourg and its machine-translated English version (pp 184–206)

Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations Done at Vienna on 18 April 1961 (pp 207–229)

Vienna Convention on Consular Relations Done at Vienna on 24 April 1963 (pp 230–271)