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Reclaiming Europe’s Digital Sovereignty https://www.noemamag.com/reclaiming-europes-digital-sovereignty

Reclaiming Europe’s Digital Sovereignty
Europe can accept permanent technological dependency, or it can build democratic digital systems rooted in climate commitments, labor protections and social diversity.

Die Abhängigkeit Europas von ausländischer IT Tech ist groß und besteht schon lange. Der Großteil der staatlichen Dienstleistungen, der Gesundheitssysteme und der Infrastruktur des Privatsektors läuft auf Plattformen, die von Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) und Google kontrolliert werden
https://thenextweb.com/…

Reclaiming the stack: Europe’s bid for digital sovereignty
Gustaf Sahlman, CEO of Swedish ID management firm Curity, argues Europe must reclaim its tech stack to secure digital sovereignty.

French President Emmanuel Macron vows a strong response if any country takes measures that undermine Europe's digital sovereignty (Richard Bravo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-29/macron-vows-r…

1/2 Got some new reading material about digital sovereignty.
It's a really nice topic / hobby to spend time with: doing IT stuff for my own, playing around with RaspberryPIs and VPCs - and maybe(!) increasing some data protection.
Someone once told me that it's absurd as I'm posting online so much. But posting online is something I do explicitly. I control what I put online.
In case of services that I use form any company, I give away control (as I hardly ever rea…

No #digitalsovereignty without #opensource, warns OSBA
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I got myself a ticket to see @… in Berlin soon. Get them while they last.
https://mastodon.social/@publix/114935748880689345

Publix Berlin (@publix@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Join us to see Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, in conversation with Maria Exner and Matthias Spielkamp, to discuss why both perspectives - re-claiming 'digital sovereignty,' without conversations about accountability and control, and the promise of AI as salvation - threaten to send us on the wrong track, and what we must do to bring technology in line with human needs. 🎟️:https://www.publix.de/en/events/meredith-whittaker 📍 25.09.2025, 6:30 pm @Mer__edith…

Digital Sovereignty Control Framework for Military AI-based Cyber Security
Clara Maathuis, Kasper Cools
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13072 https://arxiv.org/…

Digital Sovereignty Control Framework for Military AI-based Cyber Security
In today's evolving threat landscape, ensuring digital sovereignty has become mandatory for military organizations, especially given their increased development and investment in AI-driven cyber security solutions. To this end, a multi-angled framework is proposed in this article in order to define and assess digital sovereign control of data and AI-based models for military cyber security. This framework focuses on aspects such as context, autonomy, stakeholder involvement, and mitigation of r…

Self Hosting is not the answer.
"I realized how privileged I am to have the skills required for digital sovereignty. I realized how unattainable, unsustainable, and unrealistic self-hosting is as a mass solution to the problems we face. I realized that self-reliance isn't freedom — it's the luxury of retreating from a system that others can't escape."

There is only one appropriate response to these threats from Trump: fuck off. (Or, some more diplomatically worded version of the same.)
Unfortunately, I doubt European leaders have to backbone to defend EU / EEA sovereignty. https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/115093…

Digital sovereignty cuts both ways. If I ever lose all of my posts from the past ~3 years, it's on me alone. There will be nobody to cry help to.
I have backups now, maybe I'll look at adding some database redundancy this weekend.

This is completely crazy if you think about digital sovereignty....
#spain

Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps
Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.

Diplomats say the EU is moving to exclude Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon from the new Financial Data Access system to protect the bloc's "digital sovereignty" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6596876f-c831-482c-878c-78c1499ef543