The recent announcement of "a new, independent cloud for Europe" by Amazon Web Services has underlined the growing divergence between the positions of Paris and Berlin regarding digital sovereignty in the cloud sector.

"What worries me the most is that the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has endorsed the AWS European Sovereign Cloud,” French centrist MP Philippe Latombe says, explaining he fears that “the Germans start exerting pressure” against France’s highest cloud security certification, called SecNumCloud.

For Latombe, “[Amazon’s] AWS cloud cannot be sovereign because it is subject to the US FISA and Cloud Act,” legislations mandating US companies, US citizens or foreign subsidiaries on US soil to cooperate with the US security agencies.

  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    242·
    1 year ago

    Fuck Amazon and any government working with them. The people are not a commodity. Protecting us against big corporations who make billions with our data is the least we can expect from our elected officials.

    • FMT99@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      This is about AWS complying with foreign (US) security agencies, not Amazon (the webshop) harvesting individuals’ data. Not that your point is not valid.