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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by graemep on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:02PM (#46558529)
It is also interesting that yet another government is prepared to increase its reliance on American big tech.

I do not know whether Vietnam has any pretence of digital sovereignty, but many countries that do are doing this like this to actively move away from it.

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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by chrneu on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:03PM (#46558554)
isnt europe basically going through this trying to decouple itself from AWS and Azure and other american tech?
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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by graemep on Friday January 09, 2026 @06:35PM (#46560913)
Where in Europe? Some countries are making some efforts to get away from cloud providers like those but all I know of are increasing dependency on Apple and Android.
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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by tinfoilhatter on Friday January 09, 2026 @08:00PM (#46561543)
Lots of American big tech is actually developed in Israel - like Microsoft Azure's cloud services. Israel also has a history of getting caught selling American technical secrets to countries like China. Almost every major VPN is owned and operated by an Israeli company.
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