The other day, in response to Ben’s suggestion, I declared my data jurisdiction, so that those wishing to contact me knew exactly what risks their data could be exposed to.

It occurred to me that simply naming the jurisdiction wasn’t really much good unless I could also point to something that would explain the risks in plain English, so, the other afternoon, I took some time out and put together Data-Jurisdiction.org.

Data-Jurisdiction.org is a community project that anyone can contribute to (either by submitting a patch for, or raising an issue on, the GitHub project) so get hacking! It is my hope that as more people declare their data jurisdiction the site will become a handy source of information.

As a reminder of my jurisdiction; I am based in the UK, with servers in the US and Germany.