Data sovereignty
Data sovereignty is the principle that data is governed by the laws, and the rights, of the jurisdiction and people it belongs to. For translation it raises concrete questions: where content is processed, whether it trains third-party engines, and who controls the translation memories and terminology built from it. For government and sensitive content it is often a hard requirement.
How it works
In a translation workflow, source content and its translations pass through tools and engines that may sit in other countries or feed shared models. Data sovereignty asks that this be controlled: processing kept in-jurisdiction where required, content excluded from training third-party systems, and the resulting language assets kept under the client's control.
For Indigenous data, sovereignty carries a further meaning: the right of communities to govern data about their languages and knowledge, not just where a server sits.
How SourceTarget uses it
SourceTarget treats client content and the assets built from it, translation memories and termbases, as the client's, and can scope how and where content is processed to meet government and sensitivity requirements. Data handling is part of the quote, not an afterthought.