When your data touches a US-owned platform, it falls under US law — no matter where in Europe you are.
The CLOUD Act, surveillance capitalism, AI tools reading your emails… Europe's dependence on US tech has become a sovereignty crisis.
We've written about what's at stake and what Europe is doing about it.
🔗 https://blog.runbox.com/2026/05/europes-digital-independence-taking-back-control-of-our-data/
#DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech #Privacy #GDPR #OpenSource
This is the second article I've read this morning about digital sovereignty and privacy suggesting not using American products, and while I agree with the premise of standing up for citizen rights and privacy, I feel it's a missed opportunity to talk about US tech in isolation.
The call should be to bring in self-hosting as much as possible. Call in "In house hosting" or "edge computing" or "brick and mortar infrastructure". Call it whatever you need, but the call should be to bring things out from providers and the cloud as much as we can, regardless of country.
On top of that should be a renewed call for strong privacy laws as while the GDPR is helpful in some circumstances, neither Europe nor (especially) Canada offer especially great track records when it comes to communication laws, with EU Chat Control and Canada's C-22 bills.
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