On June 10, 2025, Microsoft France's legal director, Anton Carniaux, testified before the French Senate inquiry commission on public procurement and digital sovereignty. When asked if he could guarantee that French citizens' data stored in Microsoft's EU data centers would not be accessed by...
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As the market for AI and cloud services enters a new phase of unprecedented competition, Oracle has thrust itself firmly into the debate about hyperscaler supremacy. In a recent statement, Clay Magouyrk, the newly appointed president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), asserted that Oracle is...
In a significant escalation of privacy concerns, the Austrian advocacy group None of Your Business (noyb) has filed fresh complaints against Chinese tech giants TikTok, AliExpress, and WeChat for failing to comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This move...
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The digital battleground has shifted decisively from lines of code and firewall rules to the far more complex territory of cultural values and political agendas. What was once considered the domain of technical experts—cybersecurity—now finds itself at the very front lines of a broader cultural...
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