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Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives by erentz on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @05:30PM (#47158985)
At this stage tech companies should be pushing for very strong legislation that makes the US a bastion of data privacy to restore trust. But they are still pushing in the other direction.
Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives by jmye on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:15PM (#47160521)
None of them want that. Meta actively hates you. Google doesn’t want data privacy. Neither does Apple, even if they aren’t overtly abusing it for advertising. Why would any of them push for more privacy? Their users largely don’t care (or they wouldn’t use those services in the first place).
Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives by fatal94 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @06:26PM (#47159521)
No amount of legislation can stop subpoenas, wiretapping and other extrajudicial means the US has used for data surveillance since the inception of the Patriot Act. With data privacy increasingly becoming a critical matter of national security, strengthening data sovereignty laws and holding corporations accountable was always the way forward.
Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives by CGamesPlay on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @07:08PM (#47159982)
This is untrue. Subpoenas, wiretapping, and other extrajudicial means can be stopped by legislation that bans them. You can't say in one breath that legislation that enables it (Patriot Act) cannot be undone by more legislation. There are many hurdles required to produce the required legislation, which may not even be broadly supported by the public, but it isn't correct to say "no amount of legislation can stop existing legislation".
Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives by navigate8310 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:18PM (#47160554)
A bad legislation is comparatively difficult to revert than a good legislation
Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives by gip on Thursday February 26, 2026 @12:05AM (#47162099)
That would require to repeal the FISA and the Patriot acts. That won't happen.

More fundamentally, however, the US constitution only protects Americans and American companies. Europeans would be foolish to trust the US with their data given this lack of basic protection and oversight.

Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives by DANmode on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:50AM (#47166883)
> That won't happen.

Never say never.

Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives by inigyou on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:11AM (#47164498)
If they could be stopped by legislation that bans them, they would have been stopped by the legislation that banned them prior to the legislation that authorised them, but we know this is not the case. They were being done on a wide scale long before they were legal.
Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives by fatal94 on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:44PM (#47183986)
Extrajudicial means something not legally authorized. The surveillance apparatus in the US for decades has operated outside the confines of legality. By definition, they cannot be stopped by legislation that bans them.