Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook | Max von Thun
Summary
Europe is realizing it depends heavily on US technology companies, which creates risks for its independence and security. The European Commission has introduced new rules to support local tech and protect public data, but these rules have limits and may be weakly enforced.Key Facts
- A Slovenian ICC judge lost access to US tech services like Apple, Amazon, and credit cards due to US sanctions.
- Europe relies on non-EU countries for over 80% of its technology and 70% of its cloud computing.
- The US government has restricted some AI companies from sharing products with foreign users for security reasons.
- The European Commission introduced a "digital sovereignty package" to boost European tech and protect from foreign influence.
- The Cloud and AI Development Act (Cada) aims to rank cloud providers based on sovereignty standards for handling sensitive public data.
- The strictest rules banning US tech companies apply only to a small part of public cloud contracts.
- Enforcement of the new rules is left to each EU country, which may weaken their impact due to economic ties to US companies.
- The EU's AI approach mainly follows the ideas of US tech companies rather than setting its own independent strategy.
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