No, it’s not ‘unnecessarily burdensome’ to control your own data

**Executive Summary:** The document critiques a State Department cable urging opposition to data sovereignty regulations, asserting that true sovereignty is technical—rooted in cryptographic key control and data-centric security—rather than achieved by data localization; it advocates for zero-trust architectures, robust key management, and standards like Trusted Data Format to enable secure, interoperable cross-border data sharing without sacrificing privacy or innovation.