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On 3 June 2026, the European Commission adopted an ambitious set of measures to bolster the EU's digital autonomy.

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[โ€“] aleksandrs@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

The tricky part is that โ€œreducing reliance on non-EU providersโ€ is often not visible from the outside.

A tool may be headquartered in the EU but predominantly funded from the US, or hosted in the EU but owned by a US parent company. In such cases, it may still fall within the reach of the US CLOUD Act.

When I reviewed around 180 โ€œEuropeanโ€ SaaS alternatives, roughly one in six turned out to be EU-headquartered but mostly US-funded. That means sovereignty needs to be assessed at the ownership and sub-processor level, not only by looking at where the service is hosted.