Big tech clouds worden niet veiliger met stapels papier - Bert Hubert's writings

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Reliance on US cloud services exposes organizations to unilateral access cutoffs by the US government and legal instruments that allow access to data stored in Europe.
Special agreements, extra encryption layers, or intermediary companies do not realistically mitigate the underlying risks of US laws and sanctions.
Many organizations use paperwork like Data Privacy Impact Assessments, Data Transfer Impact Assessments, and risk acceptance registers to justify continued use of US clouds instead of pursuing real alternatives.
A large consulting industry profits from creating complex governance documents that obscure rather than solve the fundamental security and privacy issues.
The only honest justification for using US clouds is trusting the US government to act reasonably, but this trust is not shared by many Europeans.
True digital autonomy requires investing in European technology and rebuilding internal IT expertise within governments and organizations.

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