Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data (www.techspot.com)
from stumu415@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 12 May 06:13
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trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world on 12 May 06:15 next collapse

Please let them add Salesforce to that list

CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone on 12 May 09:38 collapse

It seems like it’ll be included, it’s affecting all services storing government and healthcare data. Of course, it doesn’t affect private companies so Salesforce will still probably be used elsewhere. Just not in government. The same can be said about other SaaS companies like Cloudflare, Atlassian, and ServiceNow.

aproposnix@piefed.social on 12 May 06:17 next collapse

But hey, the UK are cool with Palantir.

blackbeans@lemmy.zip on 12 May 06:29 next collapse

Same in the Netherlands. There’s still a long way to go

sexy_peach@feddit.org on 12 May 06:54 next collapse

Same is Germany, already using it with the police

lysol@lemmy.world on 12 May 07:27 collapse

Sweden as well…

MrSulu@lemmy.ml on 12 May 07:02 next collapse

Something the rest of the planet should get behind for all the correct governance and security reasons. Palantir meanwhile has somehow (stupidly) been approved for continuation here in the UK.

stumu415@lemmy.zip on 12 May 07:24 next collapse

Except for the Dutch where the government outsourced the Digid - our national ID and most personal information - to an American firm. Despite concerns from the parliament.

But the new PM is a lapdog to Trump because his mentor and former PM Rutte, is so far up Trump’s ass, he can cut his tonsils.

Akasazh@lemmy.world on 12 May 09:46 collapse

I do agree with most of this, but calling Rutte the mentor of Jetten is simply not true.

Most of what you say is, though.

itisileclerk@lemmy.world on 12 May 07:38 next collapse

Except for Macedonia where Government is pushing for more Azure integration.

ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz on 12 May 07:56 next collapse

Good. Finland just last year spent some 600 million euros on new AI system running on AWS, built by a USA company, that, once it’s completed, will handle social insurance related applications. If you need something like unemployment benefits, disability/sickness related benefits, etc. all the necessary information required to handle your application will be handed to that system.

Lumisal@lemmy.world on 12 May 08:09 collapse

Didn’t the deal get cancelled?

Griffus@lemmy.zip on 12 May 08:55 next collapse

But what about Palantir?

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world on 12 May 09:11 collapse

I feel for that poor, struggling startup. And their cute little CEO is just so *earnest! *

circuitfarmer@lemmy.world on 12 May 09:12 next collapse

Cool!

Let me know when it’s done, because so far Palantir etc are involved in the EU’s plans.

I don’t want the US and the EU to be against each other. I want the EU to realize that the US is being controlled by bad actors and to save us the way that the US saved Germany in 1945. As a citizen, I beg of you to check my logic.

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 12 May 09:36 next collapse

US didn’t save Germany in 1945. It was a group effort

circuitfarmer@lemmy.world on 12 May 10:29 collapse

It was. I wasn’t suggesting that the Soviet Union and other Allied Powers shouldn’t be included.

I am suggesting that there is a major failure currently and many Americans are hoping that the EU can support some kind of fix. I’m not even suggesting it is realistic, but we have no other options.

The EU is welcome to share that fix with the Soviet Union (…).

merdaverse@lemmy.zip on 12 May 10:14 collapse

US saved Germany in 1945

Lol. 8 out of 10 nazi casualties were inflicted by the Soviets. That’s the conservative estimate

circuitfarmer@lemmy.world on 12 May 10:22 collapse

The point of your rebuttal is a dumbed-down version of events. The US and the Soviets both had a part.

Regardless, neither position changes the point of the post. I’d also hope the EU helps Russia when they fall (again).

merdaverse@lemmy.zip on 12 May 10:42 collapse

Yes, they both had a part, and the USSR’s part was significantly more important. But I know that might get in the way of your American exceptionalism fantasy.

jaybone@lemmy.zip on 12 May 10:56 collapse

Taking a break from your .ml account today?

Damage@feddit.it on 12 May 09:12 next collapse

About fucking time. Make it quick.

lord_alois@feddit.org on 12 May 09:45 collapse

Read in the voice of Ozzy

CyroSignal@lemmy.world on 12 May 10:00 next collapse

Good idea.

sirdorius@programming.dev on 12 May 10:20 next collapse

Europe needs to invest in proper cloud infrastructure. The only European cloud provider that is even remotely comparable to the big 3 is Scaleway, and they’re still like 10 years behind in terms of features.

lemmylump@lemmy.world on 12 May 11:05 collapse

Who do we actually trust?

Granted, these companies controlling the board of pieces, and the pieces of the board, it is alarming, but without hard and I mean HARD safeguards to this data via legislation we are cooked.