Paris Marx2d ago

finland was planning to move its election platform to amazon web services.

after all the threats from the US and concern about how it will use tech dependence against europe, that plan is on ice.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/finland-shelves-plan-to-move-election-platform-to-amazon-servers

#tech #europe #finland #elections #politics #digitalsovereignty #amazon

Show threadHenrik Pauli
@parismarx That's such a ridiculously stupid idea even if the US and American corporates were trustworthy, that I don't even.
Mar 25 at 10:37amWeb
Show threadSiim Ošur1d ago
@phl @parismarx I don't get it either. Where's the logic? Our system in EE, is self-hosted AFAIK. The idea of doing anything in the cloud related to such an integral system to democracy is beyond me. Nobody should ever give any leverage to someone else over such a system.