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Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 79 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Under Trump 2.0, some Europeans fear that storing their data in the bit barns of Microsoft, Google and AWS is no longer safe

It never was, and all the laws that were installed to make this appear legal were nothing but meaningless fig leaves.

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 36 points 4 days ago

Techies in Europe – who obviously have a vested interest in unsettling Microsoft stronghold on the market as AWS, Microsoft, and Google have upwards of a 70 percent share of the public cloud sector in the region – previously highlighted the potential dangers of US legislation.

I've mentioned this before as a criticism for Canadian boycotts of the US. Every large Canadian website, even Government and News use US cloud services. Every. One.

Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud, told us in March, "The Cloud Act grants US authorities access to cloud data hosted by US companies. It does not matter if that data is located in the US, Europe, or anywhere else."

How was this allowed to happen? The minute that law was passed all sites that use them should have discontinued their contracts. JFC.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago

It's like people still don't know about Schrems II or the Cloud Act.

Or they somehow seriously think that the EU-US Data Privacy Framework resolves the issues that killed the EU–US Privacy Shield?