digitalsovereignty

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 ⬇️

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/uk_big_tech_dependence/

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

France is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for Visio, its sovereign video platform, across all state administrations by 2027. 🇫🇷💻 Developed by DINUM and hosted on certified French cloud, it boosts security, cuts costs by €1M/year per 100k users, and features AI transcription. A bold digital sovereignty move! https://cyberinsider.com/france-to-replace-zoom-and-teams-with-sovereign-platform-visio/ #DigitalSovereignty #FranceTech #Visio #Newz

America sneezes. We catch a cold.

And the UK is overexposed.

As long as foreign tech runs our digital infrastructure, our systems can be used as leverage or disrupted on Trump's say so.

Tell your MP to support the motion for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-devise-uk-digital-sovereignty-strategy

#trump #sovereignty #tech #nationalsecurity #uk #ukpolitics #ukpol

Lesenswert! - Erst vorgestern habe ich etwas zum Netzwerk SDS gepostet und jetzt gibt es einen Artikel von Republik zum Thema. Danke @adfichter !

Mit der digitalen Unabhängigkeit der Staaten sehen die US-Konzerne ihre Felle davonschwimmen… und laufen Amok!

#Republik @republik_magazin
#NetzwerkSDS #Schweiz #DigitalSovereignty #DigitaleSouveränität #DigitaleSchweiz #Switzerland #OpenSource #OpenSourceRocks

https://www.republik.ch/2026/01/26/die-usa-lobbyieren-gegen-die-digitale-souveraenitaet-der-schweiz

Gesucht: Presenting-Partner 2026 für das #Fediverse! 🌐✨

Wir bauen eine öffentliche, europäische Video-Infrastruktur auf Basis von #PeerTube aus. Dafür suchen wir einen Partner, der den Betrieb (Server, Bandbreite, Wartung) mitfinanziert – als Ermöglicher, nicht als Datensammler.

✅ Sichtbarkeit ohne Tracking
✅ Unabhängig von Big Tech
✅ Echter Support für das #ActivityPub Ökosystem

Details & Kontakt: https://livespotting.com/de/blog/presenting-partner-peertube-fediverse/

#livespotting #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #NoTracking

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How to delete all content from LinkedIn

As I’ve written earlier, I’m going more and more away from LinkedIn (like here and here). During my #unplugTrump activity, I decided that I want to go a step further and remove all my content (posts, answers, likes) from LinkedIn. On Mastodon, I have auto-delete activated already for various reasons. Now I wanted to clean up LinkedIn, too!

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https://www.locked.de/how-to-delete-all-content-from-linkedin/

#DigitalFootprint #DigitalSovereignty #LinkedIn #UnplugTrump

Good morning!!!

While everyone in the house is asleep, I’m delighted to finally catch @pluralistic ‘s brilliant conversation with @mike at SXSW’s #FediverseHouse (from early March) https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/cory-doctorow/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub (via @mia)

#DigitalSovereignty #resistance #DigitalLiteracy

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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/115912190359711231

Imagine how powerful it would be if von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas made their statements first on a EUROPEAN open, free, non-algorithmically distorted social media network. 🇪🇺✌️

And then later with a 60 minute delay on the account-registration-requiring, data-collecting, algorithmically-distorted US networks?
#digitalsovereignty #goEuropean #EUpol

(Borrowing ideas from @carl and @bike4climate)

CC: @EUCommission @HennaVirkkunen @DanaSpinant

New information on W social:
* Bluesky and W: "posts and comments made on one will be visible on the other"
* Ingmar Rentzhog of We Don't Have Time owns 25%, other investors also have shares in that company
* Received €2.5m in funding and the team is 25 people
* Eurostack chair Christina Caffarra and other politically well connected individuals on board of advisors (see full list below)
* Monetization through ads and microtransactions for paywalled content

#wsocial #bluesky #digitalsovereignty

“Paris Marx has offered a guide for how people can get off U.S. tech, highlighting the challenges while supporting individual effort. Doing so should be a national ambition, especially as we consider the risk of the U.S. blocking access to tech.”

article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-france-is-ditching-american-tech-when-will-canada/

my guide: https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

#tech #politics #digitalsovereignty #cdnpoli #canada

Good morning Fedi friends! This is a routine reminder that #YunoHost is still doing a fundraising drive to cover its operating costs for 2025. They’re super close to the finish line and need a little push: https://yunohost.org/donate.en.html

@yunohost volunteers are like real life superheroes — working tirelessly to empower anyone to self-host and achieve #DigitalSovereignty.

If you could afford to donate to their efforts, any euro / dollar / yen counts.

Thank you! 🙏

Thanks to the open web, it’s more viable than ever for creators to take back ownership and control of their livelihoods. @molly0xfff joined Flipboard CEO @mike at SXSW 2025 to talk about building an ethical, creator-first internet. That fireside chat is now available as a Dot Social episode. Listen in full!

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/molly-white-sxsw-2025/

#DotSocial #OpenSocial #Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty #Flipboard #SXSW #FediverseHouse #CreatorEconomy #Creator #MollyWhite #Internet #Tech #Technology

I’ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so it’s time for an update on how it’s all going.

No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/getting-off-us-tech-is-no-easy-task

#tech #digitalsovereignty #email #socialmedia #streaming

Asterès Economic Research quantifies Europe's dependency on US-based software and cloud services as a €264 billion annual economic drain. This massive outflow of capital supports nearly two million jobs in the US. #digitalsovereignty
https://www.cigref.fr/technological-dependence-on-american-software-and-cloud-services-an-assessment-of-the-economic-consequences-in-europe

This is a link to an article written by someone else, not me:

"I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid."

https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/

We need more stories like this being shared in the open. You can criticise some parts of the decisions made here, but that's not the point. Someone tried, learned and shares the result. *That's* the point.

#DigitalSovereignty #Cloudless

9,000 pre-orders. Time to celebrate. 🎉

This is not just a number. It is 9,000 people who chose privacy, independence, and a different kind of phone. People who decided that their data is theirs. People who believe something better is possible.

Secure your Jolla Phone at the special batch price before February ends. If you have been considering it, this is the moment.

Let's make it together. ❤️

https://jolla.com/phone

#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #European #PrivacyFirst #Linux #CommunityPowered

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Does anyone know of schools using something other than #GoogleClassroom for schools and education? Maybe in #SchleswigHolstein Maybe in #Österreich? (you seem progressive in digital sovereignty). Or maybe my next door neighbour #Danmark?

It'd be nice to have some exchange of experiences between the board of education for the municipality of #Lund (we need to learn) and some other city.
If there is one? 😀

#DigitalSovereignty #DigitaleSuveränität

Trump threatens allies with retribution for not bending the knee.

UK digital infrastructure can be used as leverage or disrupted on his say so.

We need interoperable open-source systems, so we're not locked in to services owned and controlled by foreign tech firms.

Sign the petition for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty

#Trump #nato #starmer #ukpolitics #ukpol #petition #opensource

📝 New post 🚀

"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/openness-transparency-and-reach-three-reasons-why-public-institutions-should-embrace-the-fediverse/

mentioning @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb

Not content with giving #Palantir access to the UK's health data and defence secrets, now they will know about people's finances as well: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca-data #digitalsovereignty

finland was planning to move its election platform to amazon web services.

after all the threats from the US and concern about how it will use tech dependence against europe, that plan is on ice.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/finland-shelves-plan-to-move-election-platform-to-amazon-servers

#tech #europe #finland #elections #politics #digitalsovereignty #amazon

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/trump-tariff-uk-digital-services-tax-warning

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

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:
https://www.techzine.nl/nieuws/privacy-compliance/577495/cpo-logius-ontslagen-via-trouw-na-rel-rond-digid-beheerder-solvinity/

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

https://cybernews.com/security/netherlands-build-a-digital-emergency-kit-internet-shutdown-nationwide/