Digital sovereignty refers to digital technology being under the control of the government where it's used. One of the primary motivations for it is being able to much more easily access user data on cloud services and limit use of encryption. It's wrongly conflated with privacy. Services with end-to-end encryption protect user data regardless of where it's hosted. Encryption can also be extended to protecting more metadata. This is a far better approach to privacy than each country needing their own services so only a country's own government has access.

GrapheneOS is partnered with Motorola Mobility which is Lenovo's mobile division. In 2011, Motorola was split into Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions. Google acquired Motorola Mobility in 2012 and sold it to Lenovo in 2014. Motorola Mobility is the company selling smartphones and tablets. Motorola Solutions is a separate company. It's the continuation of the government contract side of Motorola selling radios, cameras and now drones. Both share the same brand for historical reasons but are entirely different things. We're working with the smartphone company, not the radio/camera one. People regularly get the companies mixed up due to both using the Motorola brand. We're clarifying this since people keep asking if GrapheneOS is going to run on Motorola Solutions radios or about their government contracts. That's a different company from the Motorola selling smartphones/tablets.