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While Brussels champions policy initiatives and American tech giants market their own โ€˜sovereignโ€™ 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.

These cases provide a potential blueprint for a continent grappling with its technological autonomy, while simultaneously revealing the deep-seated legal and commercial challenges that make true independence so difficult to achieve.

The core of the problem lies in a direct and irreconcilable legal conflict. The US CLOUD Act of 2018 allows American authorities to compel US-based technology companies to provide requested data, regardless of where that data is stored globally. This places European organizations in a precarious position, as it directly clashes with Europe's own stringent privacy regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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[โ€“] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never understood how companies like Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, etc. can commit crimes such as espionage for the NSA over years, and everyone will still give them their personal property without any concern whatsoever. The problem is public infrastructure uses these products with the pre-bundled viruses, meaning even if you are practicing perfect infosec, it still doesn't matter. Because the U.S. can still get it through just asking Microsoft or Apple to fork it over.

[โ€“] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

It's so insane how whatsapp has become so heavily used by businesses in some countries. World is filled with stupid people.

[โ€“] LaOroBob@suppo.fi 2 points 17 hours ago

This. I literally only started to use WhatsApp and FaceBook when i moved to Spain, because otherwise itโ€™s impossible to find, evaluate and contact any business here. Need a craftsman? Reserve a table in a restaurant? -> whatsapp

Here, people have not the slightest conscientiousness about data protection policies