Editing Data haven (section)

A '''data haven''', like a [[corporate haven]] or [[tax haven]], is a [[Safety|refuge]] for uninterrupted or unregulated [[data]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/06/icelands_media_law | newspaper=The Economist | title=The Switzerland of bits | date=June 17, 2010 | access-date=July 13, 2017 | archive-date=February 2, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202064442/https://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/06/icelands_media_law | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2013/07/04/gov-spying-boosts-swiss-data-center-revenues/ | work=Forbes | title=Gov Spying Boosts Swiss Data Center Revenues | date=April 7, 2013 | access-date=August 26, 2017 | archive-date=February 5, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205124951/http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2013/07/04/gov-spying-boosts-swiss-data-center-revenues/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/02/iceland-aims-to-become-an-offshore-haven-for-journalists-and-leakers/|title=Iceland aims to become an offshore haven for journalists and leakers|publisher=|access-date=2010-12-30|archive-date=2010-02-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216001107/http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/02/iceland-aims-to-become-an-offshore-haven-for-journalists-and-leakers/|url-status=live}}</ref> 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]], [[I2P]] (both hidden services), [[HavenCo]] (centralized), and [[Freenet]] (decentralized) are four models of modern-day virtual data havens.