The Law Bytes podcast returns after a brief hiatus in late summer and early fall by turning to the debate on data and digital sovereignty. Last week, I was pleased to deliver the dinner keynote speech at the NREN Assembly, an annual gathering hosted by CANARIE that brings together staff and leadership from CANARIE and all thirteen provincial and territorial partners of Canada’s National Research and Education Network. With their kind permission, this week’s episode features the keynote in full, titled Digital Sovereignty: Control, Choice, and Connection.
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October 19, 2026
The Law Bytes podcast returns after a brief hiatus in late summer and early fall by turning to the debate on data and digital sovereignty. Last week, I was pleased to deliver the dinner keynote speech at the NREN Assembly, an annual gathering hosted by CANARIE that brings together staff and leadership from CANARIE and all thirteen provincial and territorial partners of Canada’s National Research and Education Network. With their kind permission, this week’s episode features the keynote in full, titled Digital Sovereignty: Control, Choice, and Connection.
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Credits:
| # | Наименование новости | Тональность | Информативность | Дата публикации |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 278: Ben Waldman on Gander Social and the Challenges of Building a Sovereign Social Network | 0 | 6.28 | 10-08-2026 |
| 2 | Episode 277: Kate Robertson on the Risks That Lie Behind Canada’s Unexpected Signing of the UN Cybercrime Convention | 0 | 6.26 | 27-07-2026 |
| 3 | Digitale Souveränität und grenzüberschreitende Datenzugriffe | 0 | 16.03 | 15-12-2025 |
| 4 | Human-by-Law: The Legal Prohibitions That Will Limit Transformative AI | 0 | 8.71 | 13-08-2026 |
| 5 | Aggregating Illegality: The Accumulation of Events Doctrine in Contemporary Challenges | 0 | 7.6 | 10-08-2026 |
| 6 | EDV-Gerichtstag: Palantir, digitale Souveränität, Vorratsdatenspeicherung und Datenschutz im Fokus | 0 | 16.28 | 22-09-2026 |
| 7 | The challenge of India’s digital sovereignty | 5 | 7 | 22-06-2026 |
| 8 | Resilience by design: why sovereignty matters in modern Media Operations | 0 | 8 | 24-06-2026 |
| 9 | Wie technische Souveränität Unternehmen (vor Abhängigkeit und Risiken) schützt | 0 | 6 | 14-07-2026 |