Marcus SchulerEuropean distrust of US tech firms hit 84% in new polling, with German distrust at 91% - near the statistical ceiling. The numbers reflect six years of legal concerns about the CLOUD Act, not just political sentiment. One sentence in the upcoming EU Cloud and AI Development Act may determine whether sovereignty means control or just physical presence on EU soil. https://www.implicator.ai/europes-distrust-of-american-tech-isnt-a-trump-mood-its-written-in-us-law/ #EUtech #CloudSovereignty #DigitalPolicy
Europe's distrust of American tech isn't a Trump mood. It's written in US law.
Eighty-four percent of Europeans say they distrust American tech firms with their personal data. Ninety-three percent say the same about Chinese ones. The easy read is Trump-era mood. The harder read, backed by six years of polling and one 2018 US statute, is that Brussels now holds a mandate it wasn't expecting, pointed at a Cloud and AI Development Act being drafted this month that will decide who wins the next decade of European cloud procurement. One sentence will settle it.