Andreas Baur

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Researcher at the IZEW, @unituebingen@bawü.social. PhD candidate at the @aissr, @uva_amsterdam.
Infrastructures × Politics – privacy, security, ethics.
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Andreas BaurJun 26, 2025

🚨New publication: ’European ambitions captured by American clouds: digital sovereignty through Gaia-X?’ looks at #GaiaX and the push for European digital sovereignty – despite reliance on US cloud giants.

Read more on the challenges of building sovereignty into cloud infrastructures here (Information, Communication & Society, open access): https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2516545
#DigitalSovereignty #Cloud

Andreas BaurOct 1, 2024
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Oct 1, 2024
The Dutch government has announced that after consultation with its civilian Intelligence & Security agency, they think the cyber resilience risks of the EU CSAM proposal are too high. This conclusion might be of use for other member states as well, so here is a translation into English together with some context: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dutch-intel-service-csam-update/
CSAM Regulation Update: Dutch Intelligence agency weighs in - Bert Hubert's writings

A quick update - The European Commission and EU member states have been pondering, for years now, if they should force WhatsApp/Apple/Signal/Telegram to scan all our private messages for suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM). For various reasons it is a horrendous idea to break end to end encryption in this likely highly ineffective way. Variations of the proposal have also included a mandate to perform such scanning of images using AI, and even to also read our text messages to see if we aren’t “grooming” children.

Bert Hubert's writings
Andreas BaurJun 19, 2024
Meredith WhittakerJun 17, 2024

📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.

Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

Andreas BaurFeb 26, 2024
@hallo Hey Uberspace-Team, wollte mal reinhören, ob ihr schon Veröffentlichungswürdiges habt, wie es mit Uberspace Next nach dem EOL von CentOS 7 weitergeht? 🫣
Andreas BaurMar 30, 2023
Konstantin MacherMar 30, 2023

German Constitutional Court confirms @digitalcourage: generalised data retention is illegal in Germany. Now it is time for politicians to accept this end to #DataRetention.

See the report by @euractiv https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/german-constitutional-court-confirms-generalised-data-retention-illegal/

German Constitutional Court confirms generalised data retention illegal

After seven years of ambiguity regarding the German law on data retention, the German Federal Constitutional C

EURACTIV
Show threadAndreas BaurFeb 24, 2023
Thanks to eco, the interview on #GaiaX, #regulation and #cloud #governance is now also part of the current #dotmagazine issue on ‘Digital Responsibility & Sustainability - Part II’: https://www.dotmagazine.online/issues/digital-responsibility-and-sustainability/abundant-energy-through-data-center-waste-heat/gaia-x-this-governance-process-is-unique
Gaia-X: “This Governance Process Is Unique in the World”

Why initiatives like Gaia-X represent a new form of international technopolitics. Andreas Baur reveals how political concepts are embedded in technology.

dotmagazine – joining the dots in the Internet industry
Andreas BaurFeb 15, 2023
I was interviewed by ‘eco – Association of the Internet Industry’ on the governance processes of #GaiaX and my research about #cloud politics and regulation. Thanks for inviting me, Andreas Weiss and Thomas Sprenger! https://www.gxfs.eu/this-governance-process-is-unique-in-the-world/ (in EN and DE).
This Governance Process is unique in the World - GXFS.eu

Andreas Baur reveals how political concepts are embedded in technology and why initiatives like Gaia-X represent a new form of international technopolitics.

GXFS.eu
Show threadAndreas BaurJan 9, 2023

… #geopolotical one erecting borders and territories in IT infrastructures.

Thanks to all friends and colleagues (e.g. @UvAMaatschappijGedrag, @IZEW and more) for your help and valuable feedback, to my interviewees and of course to @digilog_bw and @ForumPrivatheit for funding parts of this research!

Show threadAndreas BaurJan 9, 2023
… have been integrating #privacy and data security issues into cloud imaginaries that traditionally highlight progress and innovation. States and cloud providers link and merge allegedly opposing technological aspects of innovation and politicised ideas of control such as #DigitalSovereignty. This paper shows how cloud imaginaries shape and interact with current developments in Europe: a politicisation of forms of control; a shift from a purely technical understanding of control to a…
Andreas BaurJan 9, 2023

Happy to share that my article ‘European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control’ has just been published by @Geopolitics (and it's open access!)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2022.2151902
A short summary:

My paper demonstrates how the sociotechnical #imaginaries of 3 European #cloud projects reveal a performative coupling of #innovation and political ideas of control, #territoriality and #sovereignty. I analyse how Microsoft’s cloud, Bundescloud and #GaiaX …

European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control

Recently, several private and political cloud initiatives emerged in Europe. This paper demonstrates how the sociotechnical imaginaries of three European cloud projects reveal a performative coupl...

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