Data Sovereignty Fails the Moment Context Becomes Action
Data residency and governed access can limit where evidence lives and who may query it. They do not by themselves prove that a live signal was permitted to trigger an action. This essay argues that sovereignty must be tested at the decision boundary, where freshness, authority, policy, lineage, and replay determine whether an effect is approved, denied, or escalated. It examines why that distinction matters for human accountability and the law governing consequential AI use.
