Geopolitics
Information Asymmetry & Technological Sovereignty Loss
When one party—typically a multinational tech company—holds complete information about another party's (enterprise or nation's) data flows and usage patterns while the other party cannot effectively monitor or control them, power imbalance leads to one-sided resource extraction and erosion of decision-making autonomy. This transcends privacy concerns and constitutes strategic sovereignty loss.
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