‘A threat to autonomy’: Dutch parliament urges government to move away from US cloud services
The Dutch parliament authorised a number of motions to construct a nationwide cloud and scale back its dependence on US cloud know-how.
The Dutch parliamenthas adopted a number of motions to induce the federal government to cease counting on US cloud know-how.
The motionsdescribe the Dutch authorities’s dependence on US know-how as a “risk to the autonomy and cybersecurity” of the nation and ask the federal government to cease utilizing these companies.
TheUS CLOUD Act, which was signed into regulation by US President Donald Trump throughout his first mandate, lets regulation enforcement businesses subpoena US-based know-how corporations to entry their cloud information to assist examine critical crimes.
The Netherlands Court docket of Auditdiscovered in January that many authorities ministries have used public clouds hosted by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Net Providers with out being conscious of the potential dangers.
Dutch authorities requested to construct a nationwide cloud
Whereas the talk on Dutch cloud service suppliers has been ongoing since at the least 2022, specialists instructed Euronews Subsequent that the difficulty has taken on a brand new urgency with Trump’s second mandate.
Trump has not but signalled that he would invoke the CLOUD Act, howeverspecialists stated that he may ask cloud suppliers like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to both give up Dutch information or power these corporations to not present their know-how to the federal government. This might trigger vital disruptions for public companies.
The Dutch authorities has additionally been requested to comeup with a method to wean itself off US platforms.
One other motioncalls on the federal government to situation a young for a nationwide cloud to be constructed below “full Dutch administration” to retailer confidential communications and information between departments.
It additionally asks the federal government to rethink the usage of Amazon’s internet companies to host the Netherlands’ webarea and to present European companies preferential therapy in public tenders.
