Exklusiv: Die USA befiehlt Diplomaten, Initiativen zur Datensouveränität zu bekämpfen

This isn’t just about privacy vs Big Tech — it’s about strategic leverage. The US sees cross-border data flows as essential for AI, cloud dominance and economic competitiveness. Europe increasingly sees data localization and GDPR enforcement as tools of digital sovereignty.
The friction was probably inevitable once AI became a geopolitical asset. Data is no longer just personal information — it’s infrastructure. The real question is whether transatlantic alignment is still possible, or whether we’re heading toward a more fragmented digital order.

Exclusive: diplomats have absolutely no way to fight data sovereignty initiatives.

The more they protest and fight European data sovereignty, the more it becomes clear that there are nefarious reasons and that it is a strategic weaponizable asset… and the more it is clear that there cut to US IT/cloud/data/AI services is fundamental.

They’re scared of us.

Good.

That means we’re doing the right thing.

Any european politician not fighting this is compromised. Took bribes or in the Epstein v2 files

How exactly would they do this? By asking nicely?

in case it’s not obvious, us doesn’t want allies, it wants vassals.

Big tech CEOs would do much better doing European tours trying to calm governments and offering solutions that would calm both sides fears, rather than outsourcing this to an antagonistic administration that will only strengthen Europe and everyone else’s resolve to decouple from US big tech.

Even if the Trump administration went away tomorrow, those CEOs have burned too many bridges with western countries for those countries to continue to rely on their tech willingly.

Still you should not forget that the main goal of the GDPR is to harmonize local legislation. Not to protect EU consumers but to make it easier for companies in one EU country to exchange data with a company in another EU country as now the law is the same in both countries.

So don’t be surprised when this framework is extended to other countries in a decade or two which the US or China could be.

Rubio is such a shameless lickspittle. He’s blatantly one of the most compromised players on the US political stage today – everything he says and does is entirely at the behest of his billionaire bumchums.

As for the new directive to ‚fight data sovereignty initiatives‘, it’s just not going to work anymore – the US gov is a decade late to that party, and they’ve burned way too many bridges to convince Europe to acquiesce to their demands.

That, and they no longer have anything of worth to offer us, now that they’ve proven to be both unreliable defence and trade partners. US softpower is absolutely fkd now.

European data sovereignty is of paramount importance, now more than ever – to err on the side of meekness would be a critical mistake we’d likely never recover from.

We need to be loud and proud about striking out on our own, and not cowering in the corner waiting for the US to stop bullying us.

If we continue to let those sociopathic US oligarchs dictate our data integrity and security policies, we’re absolutely buggered in the long run.

During his Munich speech Rubio literally said we should be less dependent on others in our supply lines. What did he expect?

The more they protest, the more they prove us right.
It’s objective, if it were as safe as they say, they wouldn’t insist so much.
Keep it up, Europe.

Friendly reminder to vote for candidates who will dump Palantir

And… how exactly will they be fighting digital sovereignty initiatives? Because if they’re doing it with the same level of diplomacy and competence shown by American diplomats over the past year the only thing they’ll achieve is something good for Europe – they’ll push European countries even stronger on that path.

Hey, the US can be trusted to kidnap foreign leaders, threaten allies, collude with authoritarians, impose unjustified tariffs, make a mockery of democracy, protect pedos and fraudsters, withhold due process, try to rig elections, etc.

Of course they can be trusted with personal data. /s

No, we Europeans don’t need to give up our personal privacy and integrity just so techbros like Elon Musk and Sam Altman can make another trillion dollar constructing more personalized disinformation on American social media.