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   Alberto Cottica (alberto_cottica@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 22:05:50 JST Alberto Cottica

   in reply to

   I am curious as to how the choice of Microsoft as a provider was nevertheless made. So I made a FOIA request, which came back today:

   https://www.asktheeu.org/request/security_risks_associated_to_the

   The result is inconclusive: DIGIT does not have the information. "the European Commission limits its cloud services to be operated within the EU by general principle" (but then Microsoft is considered Irish 🤦♂️ ), "adheres to binding public procurement rules when contracting cloud providers", etc.

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     Alberto Cottica (alberto_cottica@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 22:05:51 JST Alberto Cottica

     • European Commission

     The @EUCommission uses Microsoft applications for the everyday work of most its officials. This is puzzling:

     * in conflict with the Union's strategic autonomy objective.
     * a wasted opportunity to use procurement strategically, bringing business to European IT companies (even better if open-source based).
     * disturbing securiy implications as US authorities have eyes and killswitches on all our executive's IT systems.

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     #Europe
     #infosec

     Aral Balkan repeated this.