The EU's response to aggressive policies & FOSS

The EU's response to aggressive policies & FOSS

by Matt Bury -
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Update
Here's a blog post arguing for FOSS for greater EU data sovereignty: https://matbury.com/wordpress/index.php/2025/05/03/the-bigger-picture-europes-data-sovereignty-free-open-source-software/
For anyone who's interested, here's a list of EU, GDPR-friendly providers of various services & infrastructure: https://european-alternatives.eu/ (My VPS provider isn't on this list but is in the EU & GDPR compliant.)
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The EU's response to aggressive policies & FOSS

by Matt Bury -
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Latest development in EU tech dependencies, apparently the ICC is dependent on US email providers. Under these circumstances, the White House can severely disrupt the ICC's activities with the stroke of a pen, no reasoning or judicial precedent necessary. See: https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

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The EU's response to aggressive policies & FOSS

by Marcus Green -
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I have also been following that story. I am currently in Munich Germany where they are very reluctant to use services such as AWS on the grounds of privacy and data sovereignty. I entirely understand their concerns.

One part that caught my eye was " His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.". I have not been able to find out more about this part of the story.
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