Digital Data Sovereignty: Law and Democracy in the Algorithmic Age

Abstract

This contribution addresses the crisis of democratic legitimacy induced by algorithmic governance, proposing a reconceptualisation of digital data sovereignty as an emerging form of infrastructural power exceeding data protection paradigms. Through three converging axes, namely sovereignty as a protective office serving the citizen, datafication as a structural reorganisation of the informational environment, and the application of FAIR principles as FAIR by design, the paper develops a conceptual architecture seeking to align technological innovation with democratic imperatives. The HAIMLA methodology is proposed as a procedural device for intelligibility and accountability of automated decisions, framing digital constitutionalism as a systemic response to the asymmetries of informational power.