# Personal Data Embassy **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Cross-Border Custody / Speculative Architecture **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Speculative continuity architecture ## Definition A **Personal Data Embassy** is a proposed arrangement in which a person's continuity-critical data, identity records, or executable state receive protected cross-jurisdictional custody analogous to a state's data embassy. ## Continuity Significance It could separate physical location from legal custody and create sanctuary or failover across sovereign boundaries. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence No government personal-data-embassy regime for continuants has been identified. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Do not present Estonia's or Monaco's state arrangements as personal data embassies. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Data Embassy|Data Embassy]] · [[wiki/Treaty-Backed Custody|Treaty-Backed Custody]] · [[wiki/Digital Sanctuary Jurisdiction|Digital Sanctuary Jurisdiction]] · [[wiki/Jurisdictional Redundancy|Jurisdictional Redundancy]]