Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS) describes a global movement that has arisen in response to Indigenous peoples' concerns over the data collected about them by state governments and other agencies, and the uses to which these data are put. Its main proponents are Indigenous people, be they academics, representatives from Indigenous organizations, or members of government agencies. In the spirit of the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, they insist on the right of such peoples to be self-determining, including having governance of data relevant to addressing their self-perceived needs and furthering their own aspirations. They reject what they see as the deficit view of encapsulated Indigenous populations that pervades the attitudes and policies of both settler-state governments and development agencies.