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- cross-posted to:
- buyfromeu@feddit.org
- buyeuropean@feddit.uk
Microsoft is responding to mounting “geopolitical and trade volatility” between the US administration and governments in Europe by pledging privacy safeguards for customers worried about using American hyperscalers, and vowing to fight the US government in court to protect Euro customers’ data if needed.
Under Trump 2.0, some Europeans fear that storing their data in the bit barns of Microsoft, Google and AWS is no longer safe, a concern voiced to The Register in late February by Bert Hubert, a part time technical advisor to the Dutch Electoral Council.
Problem is they simply can’t do that, the anti terror laws are enforced in secret, supported by secret laws and processed in secret courts. If you work against them in any way, you can be treated as a terrorist just for that.
The agreement between USA and EU for USA to respect EU law was never worth the paper it’s written on. Because US law simply doesn’t agree, and is designed to trump the agreement.
If you reveal anything from above secret law enforcement, you are yourself guilty of acts against the safety of United states. And if you in any way obstruct it, you can be held, prosecuted and judged as a terrorist with basically no civil rights.
It’s insane that EU fell for it, and played along in the American circus to dismantle human rights and democracy.
If EU finally wakes up about such issues, I might actually celebrate the Trump presidency!!
USA has decided to burn civil rights and human rights, and undermine democracy both globally and at home, let’s make sure that shit doesn’t spread to EU!!!
If the US doesnt play by the rules the EU will just turn up the heat and start cutting off US tech companies from the EU internet by force. As soon as some EU countries start implementing harsher punishments for US companies, other EU countries will start joining. It can avalanche pretty quickly and its already starting to happen.
I’ve been wondering if the US might isolate themselves from the world wide internet.
The idea of part of the world blocking the US might be more likely.
How would EU detect that US companies hand over information to American law enforcement contrary to the agreement?
The problem is that because of the agreement EU countries could pretend like it isn’t a real problem, despite by American law it obviously is. Now EU is waking up to reality, but we still can’t prove it’s happening.
(the answer is secret agents but don’t tell anyone)