I’m glad that politicians are finally catching up with the conclusions of the European Economic and Social Committee, which raised all of these concerns in *2013* in response to the Commission’s original gung ho cloud strategy ( https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52012AE1701&from=EN). See para. 3.3 and 3.4. https://twitter.com/hoofnagle/status/1194465267054592001

Six years lost that left European consumers, businesses and government agencies in hock (or even more in hock than they already were) to a small number of US cloud providers that are often legally obliged to grant access to our data to US government agencies...

... while discussions of alternatives were met with accusations of “balkanisation” and when any attempt to argue in favour of reigning in the US cloudification of essential services was portayed as “stifling innovation”.

I said it before and I’ll say it again, there is no shame in creating European cloud platforms subject to EU laws and observing EU fundamental rights , provided they are not themselves allowed to become monopolistic giants.

Putting all your data eggs in three US-run baskets was a critical error under a relatively benign Obama administration when tracking and profiling was still in its early stages. It is madness under Trump when we now know about the vulnerabilities we have allowed to be created.