Asian Business Law Institute and Singapore Academy of Law

February 2024

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.

Readers are recommended to consume this publication together with an issues paper on data embassy.