DNB is bringing our gold back from the US to Europe. Officially for other reasons, of course — but after they warned about geopolitical risks.
Data is the new gold. Yet we still park our data en masse with companies from the US. Yes, it usually sits in a data centre that is physically in the EU, but US law still applies. And that means quite a lot.
If the White House disagrees with your politics, you can suddenly end up on a sanctions list and lose access. That happened to the ICC and recently also to a small Italian internet provider (Autistici/Inventati).
If the CIA wants to see the data, that can happen without you being allowed to know. That is not only for terrorists — this spring it also applied to all civil servants working on regulating Big Tech. And with a US administration whose policy is to support far-right parties in Europe, surely also in many cases we never hear about.
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