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Microsoft exec admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 73 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This is more politics than technology, but it's good info for people living outside the US. You can't trust your data to American companies no matter where they store the data.

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Even non-American CSPs with assets in the US would required to cooperate with US regime and affiliated oligarch gangs.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    this is why you should encrypt everything on cloud services at rest. S3? encrypted. SQS? encrypted. MSSQL? encrypted.

    if you are a developer or SRE you need to make sure your apps are encrypted.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sounds good until you remember that they keep trying to backdoor encryption. It’s asinine.

    The only good thing the Trump admin JD Vance has done: UK will back down over its demands on Apple for an encryption backdoor

    This isn’t the first time it’s come up. In EU too.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The UK government was also getting advice from its own cybersecurity people that the backdoor idea wasn't viable.

    Vance deserves no credit for this or anything else.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Well, I don’t want to credit tumor, oop typo for Trump but I’ll allow it. So tumor and vance.

    It was more that Encryption is constantly under threat. I don’t know how that gets downvoted.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    As someone in the US who has been in audits where we had to attest to where our data was stored, also wtf.

    Oh reading the article it means non-US sovereignty. Pretty sure anybody in IT at this point should know the US privacy laws are non-existent and US companies are in this position and have been for decades.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The article makes it pretty clear that this is due to a 2018 law called The Cloud Act. I'm sure the US could have tightened the thumbscrews and gotten the information illegally before then, but that's going to be true of every country. No reason to think you can trust any government.

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