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Submarine cables governing the seabed, challenging international law

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Submarine cables, which transmit over 95% of global internet traffic, are increasingly controlled by private corporations rather than states. While international law, specifically UNCLOS, grants freedom to lay these cables, it was negotiated in a pre-digital era and did not foresee the current landscape where private entities effectively govern this essential infrastructure. This creates a situation where the seabed, legally a global commons, is functionally managed by those with the capital and technology to maintain these digital arteries. AI

IMPACT Discusses the governance of critical digital infrastructure, which underpins AI operations and data flow.

RANK_REASON This is an opinion piece discussing the implications of private control over submarine cable infrastructure on international maritime law.

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Submarine cables governing the seabed, challenging international law

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Yogi Putranto ·

    As power flows through submarine cables, law of the sea must evolve

    Beneath the surface of the world’s oceans lies an infrastructure so essential, modern life would stall without it – yet so invisible it rarely enters public debate. Submarine cables, slender fibre-optic systems laid across the seabed, carry over 95 per cent of global internet tra…

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