More reasons for the EU to build their own data centers.
And demand telemetry removed from all US services and products.
As it is now it’s illegal to collect on children, but it should simply be completely illegal.Or even better - stop using US services all together.
It’s the hardest one to do, but it’s way more effective. They will shit on the rules anyway.
They’re working on it, thankfully. Dozens of countries are replacing Windows, Office, etc.
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No they can’t, they never could, and it’s way way overdue for EU to finally wake up to the reality that all US owned cloud services are factually illegal for any European (EU) authority to use, from kindergartens to courts and everything in between.
It is also illegal for any private company operating in EU to hold any user/customer/personnel data on servers owned by American companies.I’ve been saying this for more than 8 years now! Because this became apparent already under Obama, that the US government can demand, any data in any country held by any American company, to be handed over. Furthermore they can do this in secret under anti terror laws. And the companies affected are not allowed to mention anything to anybody, under regulation of steep penalties.
This was what Obama claimed was a balanced approach!
And the Republicans are worse!
And now it is very apparent that the checks and balances don’t even work. The current American administration will do whatever they want, and worry about legality later. And threaten any opposition with secrecy under national security and anti terror laws.
Keep way way away from any American form of server/digital service and especially cloud services.
And also keep away from American telemetry. Which all ought to be illegal in EU.That’s the story of humanity. It’s always alarmist BS until some higher up gets personally burned and it’s suddenly red alert.
What did you think the point of the “cloud” was?
It wasn’t to make computing better.
I think the point is to make money.
It was control. I guess money comes along with that.
No I’m pretty sure money was the original reason. AWS was the first big cloud player and it quickly became the most profitable part of Amazon.
Now Microsoft already had more money than they know how to use, they may indeed have been looking for control first and foremost. But the idea of cloud in general was about exploiting economies of scale to make more money
Money has become secondary to control for a long time now.
OK, who actually did think that data in Microsofts hands were safe from US meddling?
Any bit of data sent to an American server has to be considered compromized.
This is not only about data transmitted to the US, but also about data located in the EU - but still under the Microsoft umbrella, a US company.
Even if you know or strongly suspect something it is important to confirm and have it on record.
Also, many people don’t have the technical or judicial expertise. It’s obvious to you because you already know it.
This admission and the following press coverage was likely a significant revelation and wake-up call for a lot of people.
Better yet, who thinks any part of Microsoft gives a flying fuck about the concept of safety in any capacity?
Yes, the
deceptionmarketing departments.Safety is part of the business strategy because it has to be, at least to the degree of public image and in business risk assessment.
No gov should allow their data in Microsoft hands simply based on this…
Ooops too late
So what we’re saying is the CLOUD Act made it illegal in many countries to use American software and services that have any form of cloud storage?
Carniaux did say that the situation had never arisen.
And I say that dude does not know it.
When it happens, then he has no way of knowing it, and now they will make sure about him personally that he will never get any way of knowing it.
Realities like this one are forcing entire nations to move to FOSS, more accountable systems, etc., which is a good thing for many of us, but bad for those who are in jurisdictions that they just can’t get enough of Microsoft et al.
A far journey ahead but at least we’re getting there!
Ofc they can’t google, meta and Microsoft are the three pillars of US intelligence gathering network.
Obviously
Isn’t there some kind of sketchy corporate structure they could use to skirt this if they actually cared about data sovereignty?
“Sorry Feds, this data is actually held by Microsoft EU and not Microsoft”.
Or do they only do that sketchy shit for dodging taxes and protecting people’s data is a bridge too far?
It does not work anymore. It used to work, that is why America passed the cloud act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
Okay so AFAIK this concerns when US companied have foreign subsidiaries. What if foreign companies have US subsidiaries? Can the parent company’s data stored outside the US be required from the US subsidiary?
