Buongiorno, Alberto Cammozzo via nexa <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it> writes:
<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and...>
The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds <https://apnews.com/article/trump-inauguration-tech-billionaires-zuckerberg-m...>. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America
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All these efforts are not about whether it is /wise/ to hand over control of our data to the US. It is all about if it is /lawful/.
But it won’t be lawful either — the legal basis for sharing personal data with American companies is dead since Donald Trump has neutered the special court that would make such transfers legal <https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data...>.
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and that the entire large-scale US business world bows to Trump’s dictatorial will <https://apnews.com/article/trump-inauguration-tech-billionaires-zuckerberg-m...>, but we STILL are doing everything we can <https://www.utoday.nl/news/75233/waarom-mag-chatgpt-reclame-maken-bij-surf> to transfer entire governments and most of our own businesses to their clouds.
Not only is it scary to have all your data available to US spying, it is also a huge risk for your business/government continuity <https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/publicspaces-digitale-autonomie-7-juni-202...>. From now on, all our business processes can be brought to a halt with the push of a button in the US <https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/digitale-soevereiniteit-rijksoverheid-13-f...>. And not only will everything then stop, will we ever get our data back? Or are we being held hostage <https://berthub.eu/articles/ransom-cloud.jpeg>? This is not a theoretical scenario, something like this has already happened <https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/servers-in-de-eu-eigen-sleutels-helpt-het/...>.
Here and there, some parts of at least the Dutch government are deciding not to /migrate EVERYTHING/ to the US <https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2025D06767> (kudos to the government workers who are fighting for this!).
But even here, the details of Dutch policy are that our data will only ‘for now <https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2025D06768>’ stay on our own servers. Experts are also doubtful whether it’s actually possible with the current “partial cloud” plan to keep the data here /exclusively/.
And then we come to the apparent reason why we are putting our head on Trump’s chopping block <https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/de-hele-overheid-naar-de-cloud-dat-is-een-...>: “American software is just so easy to use”.
Personally, I don’t know many fans of MS Teams, Office, and Outlook. We are, however, very /used/ to these software products. We’ve become quite good at using them.
But this brings us to the unbearable conclusion that we are entrusting all our data and business processes to the new King of America <https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/king-trump-rcna192912>… because we can’t be bothered to /get used to/ a different word processor <https://www.libreoffice.org/>, or make an effort to support other software <https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/open-source-by-itself-is-no-alternative-fo...>.
Written down like this, it seems pretty bizarre, and that’s because it is. It’s also not easy to realize that our relationship with America is over after 80 years <https://www.vpro.nl/buitenhof/lees/in-de-uitzending/2025/26-januari.html>. It took time for me as well to accept that.
But it really is over. Stop the nonsense of complicated and long-winded legal arguments about why it would be legal to put our citizens’ data in the US. These arguments are not only naïve—they are also no longer true. The US has dismantled the official privacy framework. The deal is dead <https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/114032472494922878>.
So stop surrendering our society to America. Have the courage to use different software <https://opendesk.eu/en/ueber/> and services. Even if it takes some getting used to <https://opendesk.eu/en/>.
And maybe, once in a while, European governments should have the guts to actually attempt to buy something else. Innovation doesn’t just happen without the promise of revenues <https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/is-europe-just-not-good-at-innovating/>. Spending just a few percent on alternatives would mean billions of euros.
That’s a very small price to pay for a society that isn’t 100% dependent on “MAGA”, Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The world is far too dangerous <https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/> for that. -- 380° (lost in /traslation/)
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