Trump has free rein over Dutch government data
Trump has free rein over Dutch government data
The Netherlands relies heavily on American IT service providers such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon for the storage of government data.
That building looks like a 4080 founders edition
i didn't check but I'm guessing they gave him top secret clearance a long time ago
edit: looks like he's had top secret for a while but that's not supposed to give him access to payment data and all this other shit
I am sooo xxxx pissed. The EU had all the time in the world and all incentive imaginable to develop an "EU-OS" and an "EU-Office". Linux and other FOSS software was always there to build upon. And with EU founding it could have been an easy solution, making the world a better place in the process.
But instead so many xxx politicians rather made some nice deals...
Now we reap what the EU parliament did.
What’s xxxx and xxx?
fuck shit or piss
Eu parliament has nothing to do with this.
This is generally the result of cloud computing taking over and us companies having the capital to invest to basically take it over.
Also, trump does not have control over that data, at least if its in azure.
Azure for governmental bodies is a private cloud service separate from the general public. For eu countries these are either hosted in the country its government data centre or in germany, which is in the eu.
This means that if trump would demand data, he cant access it without the approval of the server owner or he'd be breaking international laws.
Source: im a developer with azure certification
Well deserved.
And surely this news will send a strong signal towards Russia that we are more united with our allies than anyone else and that we've got nothing to hide from them. /sI'm from the Netherlands
(and the second sentence has been the actual thought process for years from anyone but me here 😢).
The article's specifically about Dutch data, but I suppose it's probably very similar with the most of European countries, or?
Very likely.
But the Netherlands has been exceptionally trusting of the US over all other nations.
Yeah they couldn't figure out how to use foss
Probably takes a whopping 5-10 developers to set up the systems in question from scratch with FOSS. "From scratch" as in, not accounting for whatever insane backwards compatibility requirements exist, though that's not some impassable obstacle either.
They could, but they didn't want to.
The Netherlands’ digital sovereignty is a joke wrapped in a Microsoft license agreement. Complete dependence on American tech giants isn’t just negligence—it’s institutional Stockholm syndrome. Pretending GDPR-compliant data centers protect us while the CLOUD Act looms is like building a moat around a house that’s already on fire.
Trump and Musk’s DOGE circus turns data security into a geopolitical punchline. Young “efficiency” bros with admin privileges and zero oversight? That’s not innovation—it’s a script for a cyberpunk dystopia.
Open source isn’t a silver bullet, but clinging to Azure while preaching sovereignty is peak delusion. European “alternatives” remain vaporware because Brussels would rather debate ethics than fund infrastructure. Until we treat data like a national asset—not a SaaS subscription—we’re just paying rent on our own digital grave.
"We've got nothing to hide and this will send a clear signal of unity with our allies towards authoritarian states like China, Russia and Saudi Arabia"
- the Dutch (me excluded)
This is why the cloud was a bad idea for so many use cases in the first place. Security and privacy are often things that aren't considered nearly as carefully as they should be... This kind of threat could have been foreseen.
There actually are systems in place for this. However, if the dutch chose to not host their own cloud service, made by a tech giant, thats on bloody them haha. This is perfectly possible to do if youre a government.
And dont get me wrong btw, i believe every government should host their own cloud service because being reliant on an international company to do your hosting ( besides the software ) is baaaaaadIt was foreseen. And the "fearmongerers" promptly ignored.
Once again convenience trumped everything else. People are lazy as shit.
Lol, that you think that this is just laziness. Some people got some very sweet deals. Just have a look at the LiMux project. Microsoft is really good at this; goole and co. won't be that much worse at it. They know how to influence the right people.
And there it is. Embedding proprietary foreign software you have no control over on all levels of your infrastructure. Now you're screwed.
Maybe one day people will realise why open source exists other than the ‘free as in beer’ part.
I go to a technical school, I literally had a dude try to explain to me that he trusts Microsoft more than an open source projects lol