this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
540 points (98.9% liked)

Technology

87450 readers
3616 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
540
US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers (noyb.eu)
submitted 1 month ago by Jaysyn@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
91 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000, the EU has relied on the “independent” FTC as the enforcer of EU-US deals on personal data. According to EU treaty law, such oversight must be independent. In the current EU-US deal, the European Commission relies on the independent FTC 259 (!) times.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Please stop calling seflhosting "digital sovereignty". It's just a marketing buzzword, but basically there is nothing there except "I will host it myself".

[–] flux@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought the idea of digital sovereignty means you host services in the same legal domain or country, not that you literally "self host" things. For example, nobody is calling that the EU organization should self-host anything, only that they would use European cloud services.

Or does "host it myself" actually mean that someone else would host it for you? I don't believe that's the common way to understand it.

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

US-based software does have hosting physically in EU, which makes it in the same legal domain, but US has the CLOUD Act, where US can force their companies, even if abroad, to pull data to US. So, being simply in the same legal domain or country does not make it sovereign. You actually need your own hardware and the full software stack where there is no foregin ownership to actually be sovereign.

And if you just scale up from individual persons to nations/blocks, whats the difference between "I will not use Google Drive, I will selfhost Nextcloud" and "EU will not use Google Drive, it will selfhost Nextcloud".

Me in this case is just not a person, but a country/political entity. EU is selfhosting instead of using US-provided hosting.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I prefer calling it "digital anarchy", especially if you're going so far as setting up your own Meshtastic node.