RE: https://fosstodon.org/@lxs/116218050147774889
So applicable to the NZ decisions on 'sovereignty' as well. Everybody is still flocking to US Big Tech, leaving Aotearoa providers out of the game, thus keeping themselves 'cleanly sovereignty washed'.
I’m experiencing again and again sovereignty washing done by poor AWS or Microsoft employees. I’m wondering how it feels to do such a kind of disgusting job. Do they even sleep well? What are they telling their kids? 🤔
"Para mitigar estes riscos e garantir a soberania digital, a Microsoft destacou a implementação do "Data Boundary" (Fronteira de Dados da UE) e a figura do "Data Guardian", mecanismos que asseguram que os dados e metadados de cidadãos europeus permanecem no espaço comunitário e que o acesso a partir do exterior, nomeadamente dos Estados Unidos, carece de autorização europeia."
Em: Investimento da Microsoft em Sines pode catapultar Portugal para o "top 5" dos ciberataques na Europa - CNN Portugal
E pronto, lá está a Microsoft com a sua lenga-lenga, a fingir que usar os serviços proprietários de uma empresa norte-americana pode servir para ter uma "nuvem soberana", logo que se tenha uma "data boundary" e um "data guardian" para garantir que os dados só são acessíveis por Europeus... e a Microsoft, e a NScale, e a NVidia, e os EUA.
País já saltou do 34.º para o 12.º lugar nos rankings de risco em apenas um ano. Agora, com a construção da nova "fábrica de IA", a tecnológica admite que Portugal pode passar a ser um dos principais alvos dos piratas informáticos na Europa
"Der jetzige Deal spielt hingegen in einer anderen Liga: Palantir steht an der Spitze eines Konsortiums, zu dem auch ... Unternehmensberatungen wie Accenture, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services und PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) gehören."
Das ist brisant, weil die auch die Ministerien beraten.
Ich selbst war über PwC an #OpenDesk beteiligt, bevor das @zendis übernommen hat.
Accenture berät auch Verwaltung
#AWS und #Microsoft machen #sovereigntywashing
#sovereigntywashing #digitalsovereignty
Amazon Sovereign Cloud is a 100% daughter of Amazon US
https://www.northdata.com/AWS%20European%20Sovereign%20Cloud%20GmbH,%20Potsdam/HRB%2040853
Well written short blog post on "sovereignty-washing", a quite apt term to describe the desperate attempt by Big Tech to brand "EU-sovereign" services which are actually not.
https://blog.xot.nl/2025/06/18/sovereignty-washing/index.html
#digitalsovereignty #bigtech #eu #europa #sovereigntywashing
So, be aware of #SovereigntyWashing
Of course #BigTech will do everything to claim they're committed to #publicvalues and sovereignty.
Real steps towards sovereignty are about emancipating us from these tech oligopolies, set up infra under our control, auditable, open source and with local & EU service providers.
Is it easy? Nope, but step by step we can do it, all together. And generate a few million jobs in the process, in the EU.
#DigitalSovereignty is at the top of the political agenda, finally, that's good. But strange things (or not so much) are happening.
Like this one: The Luxembourg gov is moving to Google Distributed Cloud, see https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/luxembourg-govt-launches-sovereign-cloud/ and it is framed as "sovereign".
The Dutch minister for Digital Affairs (outgoing) is so inspired and might follow.
But wait a minute: a managed cloud service by Google, how much sovereignty does that give to you?
Seems more like a case of #SovereigntyWashing
But if the #publicsector asks for #digitalsovereignty and accepts #sovereigntywashing that is exactly what they will get
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