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IONOS advertises on theregister.com for itself, Dataport and the now discontinued dPhoenixSuite. Still a nice call for more digital sovereignty. IONOS writes in »Why digital sovereignty is key public sector transformation« for theregister.com If administrative IT infrastructure comes under the control of other countries or depends on opaque technology stacks, then sovereignty is nothing more than a facade. Only when both the infrastructure and IT operations remain fully under European control can public institutions guarantee genuine digital sovereignty. ...

Yesterday, the EU unveiled the »Cloud Sovereignty Framework«. The concept developed by the European Commission sets out eight sovereignty objectives by which cloud services will be assessed going forward. The SEAL system, with five levels (0 to 4), records how dependent a provider is on non‑European actors. From this, a sovereignty score is derived that is intended to make public procurement more transparent and to strengthen Europe’s digital autonomy. ...

Sebastian Klovig Skelton writes in “Microsoft hides key data flow information in plain sight” for computerweekly.com All in all, an analysis of Microsoft’s distributed documentation – conducted by independent security consultant Owen Sayers and shared with Computer Weekly – suggests that Microsoft personnel or contractors can remotely access the data from 105 different countries, using 148 different sub-processors. ...

Alexander Rudolph writes in »Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty« for digitaljournal.com Does this affect the federal government and military? Yes. It appears that it does not matter if the target is an individual, organization, or government. As long as the legal request is considered valid in the United States, the target or location of the data does not matter. ...

The European Commission wants to gradually shift its cloud services from Microsoft Azure to European providers like OVH Cloud to bolster its digital sovereignty. Details are in the article, unfortunately behind a paywall. Commission eyes ditching Microsoft Azure for France’s OVHcloud over digital sovereignty fears The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...