> Thousands of EU businesses, government agencies or schools rely on these provisions. Without the TADPF, they would need to stop using US cloud providers like Apple, Google, Microsoft or Amazon instantly.
Please God let this happen
Please God let this happen
The US exports hot air and gets real goods in return.
I just hope that if it happens, it's a very gradual rollout and not a hard one
I’m somewhat surprised about this kind of gleeful condescension in this particular forum, of all places.
But you are right, we might have to use SAP instead of siebel and peoplesoft
I think this is currently in vogue globally (both sides of the political spectrum), but its important to remember that we had good reaons to stop doing this in the past (or at least scale it down to absolutely vital sectors like agriculture).
I work at a billion-dollar EU company that’s balls deep in Azure after a very, very long migration away from on-prem datacenters.
Cutting off US-based cloud providers would be chaos of biblical proportions.
The threat model is that the US government can either a) force the US-based employees of a US company to copy the data from EU to US and hand it to the US authorities, b) if not possible, force the US-based employees to order the EU-based employees in their reporting chain to copy the data from EU to US, or c) if not possible, order the company to circumvent any technical measures they have in place to make such copying of data impossible.
I am all for it.
As someone working for the public administration I've long been worried about the decline of skills of IT workers here in Europe. It is especially flagrant in email infrastructure.
Since we are offshoring email to Microsoft for a long time already, we totally forgot how to manage email internally for the few cases when we still need it.