It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings
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The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.
  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
    9·
    6 hours ago

    Very much right. The data privacy treaties and shit between the EU and the US were always ‘we pinky promise to not read every last byte of your data, or at least we’re not going to do it in a way that you’ll ever find out anyways so same thing really’, and everyone just played along like this was some grand compromise and was going to allow you to safely use services provided by US companies and that they’d stay compliant.

    It was always clearly bullshit, so it’s good that people are looking at it and wanting to get rid of that giant lie.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    14·
    8 hours ago

    Goddammit. I miss it when we were merely an obnoxious pain in the ass, but still mostly reliable. This sucks. Can’t find fault with the author’s reasoning, though.