US-Techkonzerne wie #Microsoft und #Meta haben laut Medienberichten Namen niederländischer Beamtinnen, #Wissenschaftler und Regulierer an einen US-Senatsausschuss weitergegeben.

Die niederländische Regierung spricht von einem besorgniserregenden Vorgang. Betroffen sind unter anderem Mitarbeitende von #Wettbewerbsbehörde und #Datenschutz-Aufsicht.

Hintergrund sind Debatten um #TechRegulierung und den #CloudAct.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/us-tech-firms-share-dutch-regulator-officials-names-with-senate/

#Digitalpolitik #Datenschutz #TechFirmen

Never use #Windows et al. ...

Zusammenfassung

#Microsoft soll Daten von Beamten der ACM und AP an US-Behörden übermittelt haben.
Die betroffenen Mitarbeiter setzen den #DigitalServicesAct der #EU um.
Laut Bericht wurden E-Mails und Einladungen ohne Namensschwärzung weitergegeben.
Der US #CloudAct verpflichtet US-Konzerne zur Herausgabe von Daten an US-Behörden.
Niederländische Staatssekretäre kritisierten das Vorgehen als äußerst unerwünscht.
Der Vorfall zeigt die Gefahren der Abhängigkeit Europas von US-Konzernen.
Europäische Abgeordnete fordern eine eigenständige digitale Infrastruktur.

https://winfuture.de/news,159002.html

English – The Conversation | After you upload your data to the cloud, where does it go? The challenge of dual-use technologies by Bryn Williams-Jones, Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, École de santé publique, Université de Montréal

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

Most Canadians rely daily on cloud‑based services—email, collaboration tools, banking, streaming and smart‑home apps—many of which are developed, hosted or routed outside the country, exposing our data to foreign governance frameworks and commercial interests. The article explains how this raises pressing questions of who controls the infrastructure, who can access the data, and how it may be used, linking these concerns to the broader challenge of “dual‑use” technologies that are created for beneficial purposes but can be repurposed for harmful or politically sensitive ends. It cites the U.S. CLOUD Act, which obliges American companies to surrender data abroad, and notes similar moves by France to shift public services to domestic platforms, illustrating how dependence on foreign providers can become a national vulnerability. In Canada, pervasive reliance on Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google and other U.S. firms creates tension between convenience and sovereignty, while responsibility for managing dual‑use risks is fragmented across researchers, institutions and governments. The piece argues that awareness—asking where data is stored, who can access it, and what protections exist—is the first step toward coordinated policies that balance innovation, security and public accountability, ensuring that the control and use of data align with collective Canadian interests.

Read more: https://theconversation.com/after-you-upload-your-data-to-the-cloud-where-does-it-go-the-challenge-of-dual-use-technologies-282824

#Microsoft365 #GoogleWorkspace #CLOUDAct #France #Canada

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mpjgregoire/116624758108693920

If we can have one Liberal MP cross the floor to the #CPC, #NDP, Bloc, or even #GPCanada, or any two break ranks with the Liberals on this one issue, and thereby defeat #BillC22, it is not an overstatement to say that would help preserve the rights of Canadians, the lives of undercover #RCMP officers (who need the haystack of popular usage of the same comms), the safety of abuse victims and survivors, the integrity of Canadian democracy, and the sovereignty of #Canada. #E2EE is truly that important.

Every mandated communications surveillance system gets breached, and every time, it costs lives, destroys investigations, facilitates broad-scale cybercrime, helps abusive stalkers hunt their exes, and gets abused to persecute citizens for nonviolent political dissent, justly necessary whistle-blowing, and even opposition to powerful corporate interests.

For example, the #SaltTyphoon breach in the US spoiled many active investigations and led to the #FBI recommending all citizens and businesses use #Signal, which is also relied upon for international diplomacy, hence for the national security of Canada and our allies. #C22 would force @signalapp to cease operation in Canada.

Speaking of corporate interests: C22 is a not a bill to protect Canadians. It is a bill to subject Canadians to the #Palantir panopticon, and through which, by way of the #CloudAct, to grant the Trump regime access to Canadian's private lives and privileged communications.

Don't let paternalistic patriarchal politics sell out Canadians' security and right to privacy.

Information about you is power over you. The only correct balance is therefore maximum transparency for governments to citizens, and maximum privacy for citizens from governments. Democracies do not rule, nor seek to rule; they represent, and seek to serve.

If C22 is not scrapped, I will vote on this issue.

#cdnpoli

Cloud Act, AI Act : où poser votre IA pour rester en règle

Cloud Act, AI Act août 2026, Mistral Compute opérationnel : guide pratique pour héberger l'IA de votre PME sans risque juridique en 2026.

https://www.decodeur-ia.com/articles/cloud-act-ai-act-ou-heberger-ia-pme-mistral-ovh-scaleway-2026/

#IA #IntelligenceArtificielle #souveraineteia #cloudact #aiact #mistralcompute

American companies are already telling on their European customers?

Well, this wasn't really supposed to happen, was it?

https://youtu.be/f4mYv849Uro

#GTFO #CloudAct #Infosec #NorskTut #Allheimen

Les Pays-Bas construisent leur propre GitHub pour ne plus dépendre de Microsoft.

L’État néerlandais héberge désormais son code sur une plateforme maison, 100 % libre.
La France 🇫🇷 a le même problème, mais pas la même solution 🤔

Quand un gouvernement européen décide que GitHub est un risque, la question mérite qu’on s’y arrête. Le 24 avril 2026, les Pays-Bas ont discrètement mis en ligne code.overheid.nl, une forge Git auto-hébergée, bâtie sur Forgejo, un logiciel entièrement libre. L’initiative vient de l’Open Source Program Office du ministère de l’Intérieur néerlandais. La justification relève du bon sens : l’hébergement du code source est un composant critique de l’infrastructure gouvernementale. On ne confie pas un composant critique à une entreprise soumise au droit américain.

#GitHub #Forgejo #Git #Opensource #Privacy #RegainPrivacy #BanMicrosoft #NoMicrosoft #Europe #CloudAct #DonnéesPersonnelles #SouveraineteNumerique

https://www.lsdm.live/2026/05/27/les-pays-bas-construisent-leur-propre-github-pour-ne-plus-dependre-de-microsoft/

RE: https://mastodon.online/@NOSRSS/116640344741248888

#Dutch #government adopts the advice of Investment Screening Office (#BTI) and decides to ban the acquisition of #Solvinity by #US company #Kyndryl. This keeps #DIGID, the security provider for governmental and healthcare online services, sovereign!
#cloudact #gdpr thanks @katipiri