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The Swiss privacy regulator Privatim has taken steps to ban Microsoft, Amazon, and Googleโ€™s American cloud services for government agencies. Data storage within Switzerland offers no protection against American laws, Privatim argues.

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[โ€“] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

F'n A! F dem CIA stooges!

[โ€“] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a legit stance national digital sovereignty.

Likewise, it's been similar to the idea I've had of having every US state run its own official mastodon instance: host data and provide updates/messages, be a reliable data source, but offer minimal services of your own. Be as read-only as possible architecturally. Ensure that you control your platform's data source.

[โ€“] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I agree that governments should be using open self-hosted platforms to disseminate information. No one should have to sign up for Twitter to see their local police blotter, snow cancellations, etc.

[โ€“] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago
[โ€“] ohlaph@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I would like to personally not ise them as well. Working on it!!!

[โ€“] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Why cant we be more like switzerland...

[โ€“] Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk 2 points 14 hours ago

Considering the lunatics at the wheel in the US atm I reckon more will follow.

[โ€“] mko@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Switzerland is contradictory in many ways. At the same time as they go for on-prem or sovereign cloud (laudable), they are passing laws that chase away privacy first companies such as Proton (less than optimal).

[โ€“] philpo@feddit.org 6 points 13 hours ago

It's not - they are keeping their data for their own goverment.

They are already spying on their own people for a LOONNGG time, have been spying legally on all data going in and out the country.

[โ€“] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago
[โ€“] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago

Relying on alien technology never sounded right.