Nothing says sovereignty like total dependence on foreign tech companies.
I was thinking the same. Being dependent on a company that will bend the knee to a hostile government is not sovereignty.
Who’s sovereignty? Ours or theirs? (Rhetorical question. It’s theirs.)
I was thinking the same. The only way this relates to sovereignity is in how Microsoft is trying to buy it.
Microsoft has admitted that it can’t protect EU data from U.S. snooping.
In sworn testimony before a French Senate inquiry into the role of public procurement in promoting digital sovereignty, Anton Carniaux, Microsoft France’s director of public and legal affairs, was asked whether he could guarantee that French citizen data would never be transmitted to U.S. authorities without explicit French authorization. And, he replied, “No, I cannot guarantee it.”
…and that “investment” will buy you no jobs, no supporting industry and it will consume resources forcing you to spend money where you hadn’t planned to (e.g. power stations costing several billion each).
American company, it needs to be banned from our country.
I’ll take anything but American anything at this point.
They have already said they have to follow American law if asked and it doesn’t matter what the countries laws say, where the data is actually stored. Don’t depend on foreign companies but we we’ll.
