Why Data Sovereignty Is No Longer Optional In Europe

It’s a quiet Thursday morning. Somewhere in Helsinki, a government official opens their laptop, ready to review confidential research from a national university, after which a briefing memo from the defence minister... Across Europe, millions of similar moments are unfolding: Emails, documents, contracts, ideas, private data flowing effortlessly across the cloud.

Now imagine that all of that – everything from government secrets to private medical data - Your Personal Data - can be legally accessed by a foreign government, at any time, and without the person or business knowing. Not because of a cyberattack. Not because of a breach. But because the law says so.

This is not a dystopian plot. It’s the reality created by two US laws that most Europeans have never heard of, yet which define the safety of our data and the independence of our institutions. Let me explain, simply, how this works – and why every European leader, from CEO to civil servant, needs to care.

👉 https://www.northatlantic.fi/why-data-sovereignty-is-no-longer-optional-in-europe/

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