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BBC News reports on European concern about digital sovereignty, as tech leaders flag tensions between EU and UK data protection regulations and the rules that apply to their cloud service providers in the US.
While the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) makes local organisations responsible for customers’ personal data, as do UK laws here, BBC News reports on concerns about a tension between these data protection measures and US laws that apply to organisations using US cloud providers. These provide broad powers to US authorities to access the data.
"The American authorities have the right to go in and see any data that is stored in an American cloud, even if the data centre is in Europe," Mattias Åström, Founder and CEO of Evroc, which aims to create eight European data centres to rival the US cloud giants, told BBC News.
See the full story at BBC News.
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