The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.
Why would anyone think storing any amount of a nations data or services in a foreign country was safe. No if you want that data/service to be safe and private, then no, that would never ever be a safe option.
I can’t even begin to fathom why any country would do this OR rely on US military tech.
i’ve been saying that about microsoft windows for about two decades and yet here we still are.
These are the leopards people invited in while they still had confidence USA was bumbling but not subvertible . Oh how the leopard turns.
Except the US hasn’t been subverted in the slightest. This is just a distillation of the same old strategy with none of the subtlety.
The lack of information sovereignty is no surprise when you consider they lack regular ass sovereignty to start with. All these countries have US military bases in them with enough firepower to level everything important.
One of my jobs brushes up against gov stuff. Private-possum, not secret-squirrel info. They’re completely explaining it away like “yeah, we see how it feels ooky, but we had someone say it’s all good, so we’re putting all your PII into Azure” and that’s almost the statement. It’s like painting a stick of dynamite green and giving it to kids to play with.
We need to ask the data sovereignty question a LOT when suits are in front of microphones.