Never has digital sovereignty taken on more urgency in Europe than in the aftermath of high-profile probes into data protection shortfalls among the cloud giants. For months, the European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365—one of the world’s most influential productivity suites—rested under the...
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Microsoft’s public acknowledgment that it cannot guarantee the data sovereignty of its European Union (EU) customers against potential demands from the United States government marks a pivotal moment in the ongoing debate over cloud security, digital privacy, and the geopolitical realities of...
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For nearly a week, users across Germany found themselves facing persistent difficulties accessing their Outlook.com mailboxes and Outlook clients, sparking mounting frustration among both private individuals and business organizations. What started last Thursday as sporadic reports of connection...
Microsoft’s unveiling of its sweeping Sovereign Cloud initiative marks a pivotal inflection point in the global contest for cloud leadership—one shaped not only by technological innovation, but by geopolitics, shifting legal landscapes, and the heightened demand for data sovereignty. For...
Meta's recent announcement that it will begin training its AI models on the publicly available data of users from the European Union marks a significant development in the landscape of AI training data regulation and user privacy. This move aligns Meta with other major AI players like Microsoft...
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