European lawmakers fear a kill switch order
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Donald Trump is back in charge of the most powerful nation on earth, and Europe is finally realizing what that means for its internet. The entire continent’s digital infrastructure is held together by US-owned cloud services, and Trump now holds full political control over the tech giants running them. As reported by Politico, European lawmakers, tech leaders, and industry experts are treating this as a real emergency. Europe’s internet runs mostly on Amazon, Microsoft, and Google servers. These three companies control more than two-thirds of Europe’s cloud computing market. Everything from government emails to crypto exchange data runs through these platforms. Cloud computing is what keeps the European digital economy alive, and all of it can be unplugged from Washington, and it already happened to the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor. European lawmakers fear a kill switch order After Trump returned to power earlier this year, tech executives and policymakers across Europe started warning that the White House could issue direct orders to shut down services. “It is no longer reasonable to assume that we can totally rely on our American partner,” said Matthias Ecke, a German Social Democrat in the European Parliament. He warned that European data could be seized, or infrastructure could be blocked with zero notice, seeing as Trump has the well-known tendency to be extremely petty. Alexander Windbichler, CEO of Austrian cloud firm Anexia, said the European cloud sector has failed to act politically. “I never expected that the US would be threatening to take Greenland away,” Windbichler said. “It’s crazier than shutting down the cloud.” He admitted that European firms like his focused too much on performance and ignored the dangerous level of dependence on US infrastructure. Microsoft has already been used to enforce Trump’s foreign policy. In May, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan lost access…
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