Cybersecurity expert Fleur van Leusden likens tech company attempts to sell sovereignty as a service to vegan chicken breast; it cannot be both. Technology is either sovereign or it is foreign.
This is not a uniquely European challenge. It impacts people around the world. Data may be stored within a nation’s own borders, but no amount of localisation can override the legal reality that the US companies selling the storage are answerable to American courts, and more importantly, are increasingly treated as instruments of American politics.
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