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devopscats Jul 19, 2025

You have been warned yet again, the US cannot be trusted...

Microsoft, under oath, admits the possibility that EU‑hosted data can be accessed by US agencies without any notifications

In sworn French‑Senate testimony, Microsoft’s legal chief for France(M. Anton Carniaux) conceded he cannot guarantee that data on French citizens stored wholly in EU Microsoft datacenters is safe from U.S. silent access and acknowledged that French or any EU authorities might not even be notified if access occurs.

Delivered under oath, this statement is an official legal recognition of the silent‑access risk inherent in relying on Microsoft’s infrastructure.

https://www-senat-fr.translate.goog/compte-rendu-commissions/20250609/ce_commande_publique.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

CE Commande publique : compte rendu de la semaine du 9 juin 2025

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gossen Jul 20, 2025

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Maybe a interesting read from @bert_hubert https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings

The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.

Bert Hubert's writings

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devopscats Jul 20, 2025

@gossen Thanks reposted.
Realistically we've know this has been happening for decades, it's just that's it's been acknowledged and it's full mask off with this administration.
Frustratingly in many countries, like Australia, we have the ability to do it ourselves, but our governments have been compromised by multinational companies and their lobbyists, which have transferred a lot of wealth out of the country that could have gone towards making us more independent, and building our own capabilities.

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gossen

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It is truly a horrifying idea that super private EU citizens information can and is being used/analyzed by other parties. Maybe it is time for these kind of measurements: https://999eagle.moe/posts/visor/

building a visor for unit ⛧-440729

this unit has built a visor for itself (and is still continuing to work on that) based around a gas mask. anyone at chaos events or following it on fedi has a pretty good chance of [having seen, seeing] it wear the visor and because it has been asked quite a few times, it is now writing this post on how the visor is built.