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Announcements Mar 25, 2026 at 5:13 PM

EU pursues ‘digital divorce’ from US technology over security risks

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https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/eu-security-risk-us-technology-data-wz08lwpqd
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Lucky-old-boy Mar 25, 2026 +33
Smart move on their part, due to stupid leadership on ours
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Kink_Panda Mar 25, 2026 +28
As someone who's worked in IT for 16+ years.... This should have been done a long time ago, we aren't safe for a whole list of reasons and Congress doesn't know how to deal with ANY or it. This shit has been fucked for decades and it's just now nosediving. It's always Tech CEOs and their ilk when we need people who understand the tech. People who did the work, not their f****** managers who took the credit. Edit: Typo
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orlinsky Mar 25, 2026
You’re looking backwards at the problem. The only big software companies in the EU don’t touch user data. They are control systems software or inventory management.
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Kink_Panda Mar 25, 2026 +4
User data isn't all this is about, that's too limiting of a scope.
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lostreceiptpaper Mar 25, 2026 +17
Honestly feels overdue, relying so heavily on one country's Tech was always pretty risky anyway
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starlordbg Mar 25, 2026 +8
About time, I have always we need EU-wide Silicon Valley style infrastructure. It will both reduce our dependence, boost economic growth etc.
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dancingfordates Mar 25, 2026 +3
Trump has made it very clear "America First"... Of course Europe is going to start treating the US as a possible risk.. WTF did people think would happen when you attack your friends🤷‍♂️
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FoxyInTheSnow Mar 25, 2026 +2
America is like that friend from college that you ask over for a drink, spend a few hours having very stilted conversation with, then when he's gone you notice that your wife has been raped and your Rolex is missing.
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TheGOPisTheDeepState Mar 25, 2026 +1
The Repedocan Party leadership in a nutshell.
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Actual-Photograph794 Mar 25, 2026 +1
UK offers Palantir another contract [https://www.digit.fyi/palantir-lands-contract-with-fca-for-fraud-investigations/](https://www.digit.fyi/palantir-lands-contract-with-fca-for-fraud-investigations/)
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Talynz_ Mar 25, 2026 +1
Everyone respects America now guys!
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ProgrammerOk1400 Mar 25, 2026 +2
As they should. Most US tech services have become so enshitified
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Tumaix Mar 25, 2026 +1
i dont see this happening in real life. in luxembourg the whole university moved to microsoft a few years ago, all busses and bus stations runs on windows. things that could be easy on a small embedded device with linux, runs windows.
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orlinsky Mar 25, 2026 -18
The reason the EU has basically zero software or computer hardware companies is that it has created so many consumer and environmental regulations it is impossible for those companies to exist in the private sector. They allow foreign companies to operate then immediately sue them for billions of dollars. The only way to make this work is to have a public run company that has immunity to these policies.
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Ferelwing Mar 25, 2026 +16
That is *not* true at all, the EU has hardware companies and software companies across the EU. The *biggest problem* in the EU is that venture capitalists from the US purchase our start-ups then move them to another country or sell them to a US company who has no intention of letting the competition they represent exist.
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Tossawaysfbay Mar 25, 2026 +2
So… exactly the same thing that happens worldwide and not just from the US then?
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Ferelwing Mar 25, 2026 +3
Oh the US does to the rest of the world what it does to the USA. I would prefer if the EU stopped allowing that. Which is why I support digital sovereignty.
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Tossawaysfbay Mar 25, 2026 +1
No I mean there are large companies that do this from every country, not just US giants. You think SAP in Germany became that big just by their own gumption? Schneider Electric in France? Just a little mom and pop shop that never absorbed hundreds of companies to own competition or the entire market?
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Ferelwing Mar 25, 2026 +2
The person above me was stating the the EU didn't have hardware or software companies. I stated that the EU does. I also stated a well known problem with EU hardware and software companies. You are right, I likely shouldn't have singled out US venture capitalists for predatory actions, but that doesn't mean that the worst offenders aren't the USA nor does it mean that the USA corporate culture wasn't the main driving force for the overall behavior of many of these other companies. I may have misunderstood a previous point, but that does *not* negate my criticism of the USA or US specific venture capital.
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orlinsky Mar 25, 2026 -6
Sounds like a conspiracy. None of the big tech companies in the US focus on EU anymore. They can only make money on cloud computing. Ads is dead, AI is dead.
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Ferelwing Mar 25, 2026 +3
Let me guess, you're from the USA? Do yourself a favor and look it up yourself, I am not in the mood to spoon-feed Americans the different tech hardware companies in the EU. I can tell you that there are *many*.
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