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Meet Robert Heide: developer, founder of hank, and Tuta user for nearly a decade. He chose privacy before it was a trend, and never looked back.

From leaving Gmail to building a fully EU-based tech stack: Robert's journey is digital sovereignty in action. 🇪🇺

Check it out: ➡️ tuta.com/blog/europe-only-star…

#Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #Tuta

Dutch civil servant fired because he spoke up against the takeover of #Solvinity that provides the #DigiD service. DigiD is the central system that is used in the #Netherlands to log in into official government and related services.

Solvinity, the company hosting DigiD will probably be taken over by Kyndryl, a US company. Putting the login functionality of the Dutch official digital services under US #jurisdiction.

#DigitalSovereignty #DigitalAutonomy

In Dutch:
techzine.nl/nieuws/privacy-com…

CPO Logius ontslagen via Trouw na rel rond DigiD-beheerder Solvinity - Techzine.nl

CPO Pieter van Oordt van Logius zegt ontslagen te zijn via Trouw en beschuldigt Algemeen Directeur Bert Voorbraak van onjuiste informatieverstrekking over de Solvinity-overname.

^{Erik van Klinken (Dolphin Publications)}

The UK isn’t a vassal state of America.

Yet Trump wants to punish us over a digital services tax.

This can be resolved by ditching US Big Tech from our digital infrastructure.

We should invest in open source to promote economic growth through greater innovation and a more competitive tech sector.

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…

#digitalsovereignty #trump #digitalservices #tech #bigtech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol #tarrif

Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn’t drop digital services tax

President accuses Britain of trying to ‘make an easy buck’ from American tech firms, weeks after warning UK–US trade deal can be changed

^{Mark Sweney (The Guardian)}

🇫🇷 France wants to switch from #Windows to #Linux 🎉

Find out which other countries in the #EU no longer want to waste tax payers' money on Big Tech 👉 tuta.com/blog/countries-ditchi…

#digitalsovereignty

"We tend to think of the internet as permanent, but recent weeks have been a stark reminder of how fragile our digital record really is.

The Internet Archive releases its new book, Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record, as the headlines tell a parallel story.

▪ download the book for free at the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vanishing-…

▪ buy it at betterworldbooks.com/product/d… or at your local bookstore. "

#whatToRead #librarydon #digitalsovereignty #internetarchive

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026) : Luca Messarra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

DOWNLOAD THE FREE EBOOK:PDFEPUBPURCHASE A PRINT COPY:Buy the book from Better World Books or any online bookstore.Order a copy through your local...

^{Internet Archive}

The European Commission (@EUCommission) posted this morning about protecting young Europeans in "digital spaces."

Meanwhile commission.europa.eu runs on Amazon CloudFront, with a TLS certificate issued by Amazon, exposing every visitor to foreign data collection (CLOUD Act, FISA 702).

Full legal breakdown in my reply:
mastodon.luca-alloatti.eu/@luc…

Max Schrems and @noybeu have done the legal heavy lifting on why US servers in the EU don't fix this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schr…

#DigitalSovereignty

#Sécurix et #Bureautix. Ce ne sont pas de nouveaux personnages de la BD Asterix, mais les distros #Linux que le DINUM déploiera sur les postes de travail de ses 250 employés.

Les deux distros sont dérivées de #NixOS

clubic.com/dossier-609418-secu…

#France #FOSS #souverainetéNumérique #DigitalSovereignty

Sécurix et Bureautix, voici à quoi ressemble vraiment le Linux qui va remplacer Windows en France

Début avril 2026, la DINUM officialisait sa migration vers Linux. Derrière cette décision, deux projets open source portent des noms qui fleurent bon Astérix : Sécurix et Bureautix.

^{Guillaume Belfiore (Clubic.com)}

The UK's love affair with Big Tech is toxic.

A small number of companies have captured the market for the UK’s critical infrastructure from the NHS to defence.

From this position, they’ve influenced policies that entrench the UK’s dependency.

It's time to course correct with Digital Sovereignty.

Read more ⬇️

theregister.com/2026/04/15/uk_…

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk

: Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposed

^{Carly Page (The Register)}

"France Is Ditching Windows for Linux"
Video by Mental Outlaw:
youtube.com/watch?v=ThTJAlYGqk…

Could this be an early sign of an emerging "Post-American Internet" like the one envisioned by @pluralistic ?
pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c…

#France #Linux #digitalsovereignty

Mastodon, I need your help! As more European countries and orgs look to ditch US technology and move to sovereign or open source alternatives, I'm trying to track these efforts.

So far, I've found more than half a dozen government agencies, cities, orgs, that are embracing digital sovereignty but want to hear about other examples that I've missed. Who else should I be adding to this?

Here's a list of what I have so far:

*Edit: This list is now on Proton Sheets, as I should have seen that coming*

docs.proton.me/sheet?mode=open…

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #europe #tech

Proton Docs

Edit documents in real time, fully end-to-end encrypted.

^{docs.proton.me}

A growing number of MPs that have signed the Early Day Motion calling for a Digital Sovereignty strategy and spoken out in debates.

It'll take political courage to end our digital dependency on powerful tech companies. But the risks of not acting are greater.

Sign and share our petition ⬇️

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

Stop the "Kill Switch": Demand the UK takes back control of our technology.

From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Help us demand digital independence.

^{38 Degrees}

The way forward is having the leadership to promote alternatives to Big Tech and using shared, Open Source tech.

It isn't about 'Buy British'. Open Source allows multiple partners and governments to develop the tools they need.

That means no vendor lock-in that frees us from coersion and control.

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

The dominance of Big Tech in social media is itself a risk to democracy.

Yet the government supports Big Tech monopolies with ad spending and content without publishing on the alternatives.

They complain about Big Tech’s failures, while only giving users the opportunity to engage through Big Tech.

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

Digital dependence poses serious democratic risks.

They include lobbying, interference in trade agreements, deregulation and producing e-waste.

Governments become spellbound by techno-solutionism as vendors promote their way of doing things.

This only leads to greater economic extraction.

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

Making ourselves dependent on Big Tech has been a fatal mistake.

The Post Office scandal didn't come from nowhere. Outsourcing our systems to the exclusive product of a single provider means we're locked-in to using it and them.

This leads to over-charging that costs in failure and extracts value.

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

The UK government has blanked the risks of US tech dependency for too long.

Our digital infrastructure is a strategic asset.

But that understanding is absent in how we hand out public sector contracts and allow UK tech sector sell-offs to foreign companies.

We must shift the dial.

Read more ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-c…

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

The case for Digital Sovereignty and the Digital Commons

Our new report asks a profound question: just how dependent is the UK on US technology, and what could that mean for the UK’s sovereignty?

^{Open Rights Group}

NHS workers are being gagged from criticising the Palantir contract 🤐

We can't duck the hard truths that embedding US Big Tech in UK public services carries risks of outside political interference and waste from vendor lock-in.

The alternative is here: Digital Sovereignty with open source tech.

novaramedia.com/2026/04/14/nhs…

#DigitalSovereignty #opensource #palantir #nhs #ukpolitics #ukpol

NHS Staff Told ‘Stop Criticising Palantir or Lose Your Job’

NHS staff have been told they might lose their jobs if they criticise NHS England’s controversial £330m contract with IDF-contractor Palantir.

^{Novara Media}

The Netherlands is building a "digital emergency kit" in case the internet shuts down nationwide.

Meanwhile the UK is providing every home with the opportunity to rent a bag of Microsoft Copilot sand to put your head in. #digitalsovereignty

cybernews.com/security/netherl…

Remind me. What are the alternatives to Microsoft Forms other than cryptpad.org? I'm drawing a blank here.

#DigitalSovereignty #deGoogle #deMicrosoft

CryptPad.org

End-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite

^cryptpad.org

Almost two-thirds are in favour of replacing American technology with European solutions. The biggest obstacle is the enormous sums that American companies spend on lobbying. I recently heard it said that ‘the market has spoken’ – which is why everyone uses Microsoft and Google.

That doesn’t exactly sound very much like progressive politics. It suggests we believe the market should take care of everything in our societies. 1/2
#DigitalSovereignty

techpolicy.press/almost-two-th…

Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds

EU leaders are pursuing digital sovereignty plans to reduce the 27-country bloc’s dependence on the United States, writes Mark Scott.

^{Mark Scott (Tech Policy Press)}