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Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'
France’s deepening reliance on US tech giants is raising alarms about digital sovereignty and exposing public data to foreign jurisdictions. In a French Senate report on economic and digital…
The Senate report cited Microsoft France’s legal director, Anton Carniaux, as admitting the company could not guarantee that French data it hosted would not be handed over to foreign authorities. In November last year, Latombe criticised the US-EU Data Privacy Framework (DPF) deal, saying it no longer served EU interests due to the US president’s “impulsive” nature. Citing concerns over financial cost, market dominance and political tension with Washington, Denmark’s two largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already begun ditching Microsoft earlier this year.
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