cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/6270906
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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.
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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Doubt, but I’d love to be wrong.
Same. If they’re really serious, there wouldn’t be that article.
Sweden is not. Our tax office decided only this year to migrate everything to the Office 365 cloud despite Microsoft admitting that they’d turn over any data to the US government should they be asked to. I think the EU should step in on this.
Don’t know how it went down in Sverige. But they might un- decide their choice for Ofiice 365, if enough public, and or like you suggest EU, pressure is given. Tbh, need to check my own Gvement though. But afaik in the NL, the Dutch Cloud was sold off to an US Cny. Hopeless situation too .
Add: the NL Gvement has plans
“The Cloud Acceleration Team operates with 1 central mission: to develop a sovereign cloud infrastructure for the entire government”
I don’t know much about Sweden, but the government released a report including options for digital collaboration platform technologies for the public sector in 2021 (available in English and Swedish, both a s pdf).
At least the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning has chosen Nextcloud in 2022.
