The article examines the profound transformation of peoples' right to self-determination from its philosophical origins to the modern digital paradigm. It is shown that in modern conditions, individual rights such as the right to self-identification not only do not be-come a form of realization of the right of peoples to self-determination, but, on the contrary, are used to violate and suppress it. Three key as-pects of the transformation have been identified: the emergence of the concept of digital sovereignty as the ability to control the flow of data, a gradual departure from the traditional Westphalian model linking sovereignty and self-determination to a specific territory, and increasing contradictions between liberal individual rights and the collective right to self-determination of indigenous peoples in digital spaces
self-determination; digital sovereignty; sovereignty of indigenous peoples' data; saltwater colonialism; settler colonialism; decolonization; digital rights; information colonialism