Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)

EU sovereignty in cloud computing refers to keeping EU citizens' data within the EU, but achieving this is complicated because major cloud providers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft use global services, authentication systems, and DNS that route data through U.S. regions. The fundamental legal conflict is that U.S. law allows government agencies to access data with gagging orders preventing notification, while EU law mandates notifying citizens whenever their data is accessed—a incompatibility that proposed frameworks like Safe Harbour, Privacy Shield, and the current Data Privacy Framework have failed to adequately resolve.