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Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech (www.theregister.com)
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Europe’s quest for digital sovereignty is hampered by a 90 per cent dependency on US cloud infrastructure, claims Cristina Caffarra, a competition expert and a driving force behind the Eurostack initiative.

While Brussels champions policy initiatives and American tech giants market their own ‘sovereign’ solutions, a handful of public authorities in Austria, Germany, and France, alongside the International Criminal Court in The Hague, are taking concrete steps to regain control over their IT.

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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This would be extremely important, but unfortunately it is unlikely to happen with our politicians. On the contrary, they are even signing new deals with companies such as Palantir, thereby providing the US regime with the most sensitive information about EU citizens. So, unfortunately, there is little to be expected in this regard.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Yes, it's true: hope dies last. Perhaps our leaders will finally realize how dangerous it is to be absolutely dependent - and on such an unpredictable regime at that. Many Countries from the East understood the importance of digital sovereignty decades ago and have largely built up their own systems. In Europe, this has been prevented by massive lobbying, but perhaps something will really happen now that we are being blackmailed because of our self-inflicted dependence.

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