Microsoft has admitted that it can’t protect EU data from U.S. snooping.
In sworn testimony before a French Senate inquiry into the role of public procurement in promoting digital sovereignty, Anton Carniaux, Microsoft France’s director of public and legal affairs, was asked whether he could guarantee that French citizen data would never be transmitted to U.S. authorities without explicit French authorization. And, he replied, “No, I cannot guarantee it.”
Like fuck they will.
Now please explain this to the company I work for which is continually moving more and more into the Microsoft world because “the licenses are already included in our contract with Microsoft so it saves us money”.
They won’t defend their own products from shit.
You won’t defend the trans users on linkedin. You liars!
They don’t stand up to defend anything except their profits.
There is no sovereignty if you integrate closed models into all your services. The US uses sanctions non-stop. Imagine the power they’ll have when other countries have their actual public services and half their economy dependent on AI models that can be throttled or cut off at the flip of a switch. Closed, corporate-owned models regulated by a foreign country are a massive risk for any country hoping to be sovereign.
Sovereignty is a boloney idea to begin with
So you think, then, that Germany should be opened up to the raping and pillaging of American tech firms, say?
