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A '''data haven''', like a [[corporate haven]] or [[tax haven]], is a [[Safety|refuge]] for uninterrupted or unregulated [[data]]. Data havens are locations with [[law|legal environment]]s that are friendly to the concept of a [[computer network]] freely holding data and even protecting its content and associated information. They tend to fit into three categories: a physical [[nation|locality]] with weak information-system enforcement and [[extradition]] laws, a physical locality with intentionally strong protections of data, and [[Virtuality|virtual]] domains designed to secure data via technical means (such as [[encryption]]) regardless of any legal environment.

[[Tor (anonymity network)|Tor]]'s [[.onion|onion space]] (hidden service), [[HavenCo]] (centralized), and [[Freenet]] (decentralized) are three models of modern-day virtual data havens.

==Purposes of data havens==
Reasons for establishing data havens include access to [[Freedom of speech|free political speech]] for users in countries where [[Internet censorship|censorship]] of the [[Internet]] is practiced.

Other reasons can include:
* [[Whistleblower|Whistleblowing]]
* Distributing [[software]], data or speech that violates laws such as the [[Digital Millennium Copyright Act|DMCA]]
* [[Copyright infringement]]
* Circumventing [[data protection]] laws
* [[Online gambling]]
* [[Pornography]]

==History of the term==
The 1978 report of the British government's Data Protection Committee expressed concern that different privacy standards in different countries would lead to the transfer of personal data to countries with weaker protections; it feared that Britain might become a "data haven." Also in 1978, Adrian Norman published a mock consulting study on the feasibility of setting up a company providing a wide range of data haven services, called "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110903080638/http://www.adminet.co.uk/clients/ANAAL/goldfish.pdf Project Goldfish]."

Science fiction novelist [[William Gibson]] used the term in his novels ''[[Count Zero]]'' and ''[[Mona Lisa Overdrive]]'', as did Bruce Sterling in ''[[Islands in the Net]]''. The "modern-day" segments of [[Neal Stephenson]]'s 1999 novel ''[[Cryptonomicon]]'' concern a small group of entrepreneurs attempting to create a data haven.

==See also==

* [[Anonymity]]
* [[Anonymous P2P]]
* [[Pseudonymity]]
* [[Corporate haven]]
* [[Crypto-anarchism]]
* [[Principality of Sealand|Sealand]] located in international waters in the North Sea
* [[CyberBunker]]
* [[PRQ]], an [[Internet Service Provider|ISP]] in Sweden
* [[IPREDator]] located in Sweden
* [[International Modern Media Institute]]
* [[Wikileaks]]

==Source==

[http://wikipedia.org/ http://wikipedia.org/]
[[Category:Crypto-anarchism]]

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