In a recent hearing before the French Senate, Microsoft France's CEO, Anton Carniaux, and his colleague Pierre Lagarde, acknowledged that the company cannot guarantee that European users' data will remain solely within Europe. Despite implementing various measures to enhance data sovereignty...
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The European Commission’s relationship with Microsoft—and the privacy implications of that relationship—has long been a focal point in the debate over public sector reliance on non-European digital giants. This ongoing scrutiny reached a milestone when the European Data Protection Supervisor...
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Each year, technology investment decisions made by governments signal not only tactical priorities but also evolving digital strategies and the broader balance between operational efficiency and national sovereignty. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Luxembourg, where the State Information...
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When 150 executives in the Department of Gard started road-testing Microsoft Copilot, the stakes were higher than the foie gras pâté at a French administrative luncheon. In this digital transformation adventure, Gard is not content to simply keep up with the times—they’re lapping the field with...
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