On 27/05/2021 08:48, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
C'è un dibattito simile in corso qui in Francia, dove il governo sta sostanzialmente provando a vendere come "cloud sovrano francese" delle soluzioni cloud dei GAFAM, con accordi d'uso specifici che "garantiscono" che storage e altre risorse di calcolo siano geograficamente localizzate in Francia.
In Francia Orange ha costituito con Microsoft una società di scopo, sotto la diretta supervisione dell'ANSSI (Cybersecurity) e CNIL (Garante Privacy), all'esplicito scopo di sfuggire al U.S. Cloud Act:
*Microsoft partners with French companies Orange, Capgemini on cloud*
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PARIS — French consulting and IT company Capgemini and telecom operator Orange will partner with U.S. tech giant Microsoft to set up a cloud company called Bleu, that will not be subject to U.S. extraterritorial legislation.
The so-called /“Cloud de Confiance”/ service “will meet sovereignty requirements of the French State, public administrations and critical infrastructure companies with unique privacy, security and resiliency needs as determined by the French State,” the companies announced <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://politico.us8.list-manage.com/track/click...> today.
Bleu would be “an unprecedented French hyperscale cloud, fully under French and European jurisdictions,” they added.
The French government has been long wary of the extraterritorial nature of the U.S. Cloud Act, which allows American authorities to access data hosted by U.S. companies even if they’re stored abroad.
Earlier this month, France unveiled <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://politico.us8.list-manage.com/track/click...> its cloud strategy, which promotes a “trusted cloud providers” certification. The government, the cybersecurity agency ANSSI and data protection authority CNIL backed hybrid solutions where U.S. software such as Microsoft’s or Google’s is licensed by European companies to process the data — and therefore not subjected to the Cloud Act.
Guillaume Poupard, ANSSI’s general director, “enthusiastically welcomes this ambitious project,” he said in Bleu’s press release.
Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire and Digital Junior Minister Cédric O also gave their blessing, calling the partnership a “new step toward European sovereignty.”
Bleu’s data centers will offer the Microsoft Azure cloud platform’s services but will be “strictly separated” from the U.S. company’s global data center infrastructure, according to Capgemini and Orange.
Not everyone is won over, however, as some fear that behind the veneer of sovereignty is actually an open door to U.S. tech giants. “This false sovereignty is an absolute danger,” said <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://politico.us8.list-manage.com/track/click...> the founder and president of French cloud company Scaleway Arnaud de Bermingham.