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🚨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
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.
📣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
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/
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