Why the Dutch government blocked the takeover of DigiD infrastructure by an American company, and what that says about privacy, digital autonomy, and European data sovereignty.
Official transparency reports show that Google, Apple, and Microsoft receive hundreds of thousands of government data requests annually and comply with the majority of them.
Trump is threatening to undermine NATO. But Europe's real vulnerability isn't in tanks or soldiers, it's in data. And that data runs on American servers.
A plain-English guide to understanding the CLOUD Act, why it affects your personal data even in Europe, and what you can do about it.
As the US wages war in the Middle East and threatens NATO allies with economic ultimatums, your personal data sitting on American servers is no longer just a privacy issue - it's a geopolitical risk. Here's what ordinary people can do right now.
Europe's near-total dependence on US tech companies has become a critical vulnerability. When Microsoft blocked the ICC's email access and the CLOUD Act grants extraterritorial data access, the threat to European digital sovereignty is no longer theoretical-it's happening now.