#data-sovereignty — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #data-sovereignty, aggregated by home.social.
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Blog update:
https://blog.hofstede.it now loads zero external resources. Fonts and Bootstrap are self-hosted, the requests to Google Fonts and jsdelivr are gone. All visits stays between the visitors browser and my server.
Also new:
- Full-text search (Pagefind: fully static, no search backend, no tracking)
- Series navigation for multi-part articles
- Older/newer article links
- A proper 404 pageStatic sites don't need third parties.
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Blog update:
https://blog.hofstede.it now loads zero external resources. Fonts and Bootstrap are self-hosted, the requests to Google Fonts and jsdelivr are gone. All visits stays between the visitors browser and my server.
Also new:
- Full-text search (Pagefind: fully static, no search backend, no tracking)
- Series navigation for multi-part articles
- Older/newer article links
- A proper 404 pageStatic sites don't need third parties.
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Data sovereignty shapes global trust. Your view matters. Share it. #DataSovereignty #DigitalTransformation #TechnologyStrategy #CorporateGovernance #GlobalBusiness #DigitalTrust #DataGovernance #CrossBorderData #CloudSecurity
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-power-map-why-data-sovereignty-shapes-fate-sanjay-k-mohindroo--ikclc -
What Happens When The Machine Has Never Heard of You?
Eddy Smith's essay on AI and St. Vincent hits close to home, literally. As someone born there, with family roots in Bequia, who works in cybersecurity and has spent two decades arguing for the open web, I recognise every word of it.https://islandinthenet.com/what-happens-when-the-machine-has-never-heard-of-you/
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What Happens When The Machine Has Never Heard of You?
Eddy Smith's essay on AI and St. Vincent hits close to home, literally. As someone born there, with family roots in Bequia, who works in cybersecurity and has spent two decades arguing for the open web, I recognise every word of it.https://islandinthenet.com/what-happens-when-the-machine-has-never-heard-of-you/
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SaaS-only SIEM fails the moment it assumes connectivity that doesn't exist.
Air-gapped military networks. OT-isolated pipelines and power grids. Government research enclaves. Hard data residency mandates across the EU, GCC, and beyond.
In each case the issue isn't the product — it's the architecture.
New post: the four environments where cloud-first SIEM structurally cannot operate, and what actually works instead → https://graylog.org/post/the-four-environments-where-saas-only-siem-fails/
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SaaS-only SIEM fails the moment it assumes connectivity that doesn't exist.
Air-gapped military networks. OT-isolated pipelines and power grids. Government research enclaves. Hard data residency mandates across the EU, GCC, and beyond.
In each case the issue isn't the product — it's the architecture.
New post: the four environments where cloud-first SIEM structurally cannot operate, and what actually works instead → https://graylog.org/post/the-four-environments-where-saas-only-siem-fails/
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I went looking for privacy and came back holding something else: control.
Privacy is about who can see your data. Sovereignty is about who decides what it means about you and who has a claim on it. You can have one without the other.Launching a new series aimed at people with jobs and families who want to better understand their information clearly.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sargentjamesa/p/privacy-is-not-sovereignty?r=7o0dk0
#DataSovereignty #Privacy #SelfHosting #FOSS #DigitalRights #InfoSec
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I went looking for privacy and came back holding something else: control.
Privacy is about who can see your data. Sovereignty is about who decides what it means about you and who has a claim on it. You can have one without the other.Launching a new series aimed at people with jobs and families who want to better understand their information clearly.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sargentjamesa/p/privacy-is-not-sovereignty?r=7o0dk0
#DataSovereignty #Privacy #SelfHosting #FOSS #DigitalRights #InfoSec
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Is Peter Thiel’s Palantir the most evil company in the world …. along with all the other “tech-bro” $billionaire outfits?
Quite possibly!
*** Recommended read & please boost! ***
“The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials”
by Charlie Young, Ian Tucker & Carole Cadwalladr in The Nerve
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@NHSrCommunity
@nhsactivistrn
@NoPalantirInSouthYorkshire
@ZackPolanski
@kein_palantir_bw
@palantirwatch“The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk”
https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-revolving-doors-peter-thiel-transparency-corruption-risk
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Government #Labour #Starmer #MOD #NHS #Thiel #Karp #Israel #IDF #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #Genocide #AI #Lavender #Corruption #Sovereignty #DataSovereignty #RevolvingDoor #ICE #Trump #Mandelson #Epstein #Watson
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Is Peter Thiel’s Palantir the most evil company in the world …. along with all the other “tech-bro” $billionaire outfits?
Quite possibly!
*** Recommended read & please boost! ***
“The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials”
by Charlie Young, Ian Tucker & Carole Cadwalladr in The Nerve
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@NHSrCommunity
@nhsactivistrn
@NoPalantirInSouthYorkshire
@ZackPolanski
@kein_palantir_bw
@palantirwatch“The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk”
https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-revolving-doors-peter-thiel-transparency-corruption-risk
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Government #Labour #Starmer #MOD #NHS #Thiel #Karp #Israel #IDF #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #Genocide #AI #Lavender #Corruption #Sovereignty #DataSovereignty #RevolvingDoor #ICE #Trump #Mandelson #Epstein #Watson
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Is Palantir the most evil company in the world?
Probably!
** Must watch & please boost **
“Palantir: It’s WORSE Than You Think”
via Double Down News Watch (feat. former Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr) on YouTube
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@ZackPolanski
@NHSrCommunity
@nhsactivistrn
@NoPalantirInSouthYorkshire
@palantirwatch“Carole #Cadwalladr Exposes Palantir
‘It’s absurd and insane that we have a rogue US military contractor handling our most sensitive data. Your devices are going to be monitored 24 hours a day. Palantir had a very secretive contract with GCHQ. Palantir has a contract running our nuclear missile program. We have no national security. This company should be nowhere near the NHS’.”
https://youtu.be/6H7VOoFwDtU?si=fTba-HsA0IjPMyu6
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Sovereignty #DataSovereignty #Palantir #Thiel #Karp #NHS #Data #Ellison #Oracle #Blair #TBi #Labour #Mandelson #Starmer #Epstein #GCHQ #ICE #US #Trump #Vance #SiliconValley #Guardian #MOD #Police #MetPolice
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Is Palantir the most evil company in the world?
Probably!
** Must watch & please boost **
“Palantir: It’s WORSE Than You Think”
via Double Down News Watch (feat. former Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr) on YouTube
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@ZackPolanski
@NHSrCommunity
@nhsactivistrn
@NoPalantirInSouthYorkshire
@palantirwatch“Carole #Cadwalladr Exposes Palantir
‘It’s absurd and insane that we have a rogue US military contractor handling our most sensitive data. Your devices are going to be monitored 24 hours a day. Palantir had a very secretive contract with GCHQ. Palantir has a contract running our nuclear missile program. We have no national security. This company should be nowhere near the NHS’.”
https://youtu.be/6H7VOoFwDtU?si=fTba-HsA0IjPMyu6
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Sovereignty #DataSovereignty #Palantir #Thiel #Karp #NHS #Data #Ellison #Oracle #Blair #TBi #Labour #Mandelson #Starmer #Epstein #GCHQ #ICE #US #Trump #Vance #SiliconValley #Guardian #MOD #Police #MetPolice
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ICYMI: From the AOF Studio Decentralising the Ledger: Why We Are Off-Boarding from Commercial AI https://www.artoffaceless.com/decentralising-the-ledger-why-we-are-off-boarding-from-commercial-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Decentralization #OpenSource #DataSovereignty #EnvironmentalImpact #AIethics
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https://youtu.be/OcQy1zaflbw?si=ikIlh4qsfqWFyBPr
#DataSovereignty #foss #linux #microsoft #eu #privacy #security
Canada should follow the example set... We could save billions by not having to pay Microsoft licensing fees that could go towards benefitting Canadians instead of fascist American billionaires.
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https://youtu.be/OcQy1zaflbw?si=ikIlh4qsfqWFyBPr
#DataSovereignty #foss #linux #microsoft #eu #privacy #security
Canada should follow the example set... We could save billions by not having to pay Microsoft licensing fees that could go towards benefitting Canadians instead of fascist American billionaires.
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NocoDB turns your database into a smart spreadsheet. The 2026.06.0 release packs some heavy-hitting features. 🚀
Highlights:
• NocoDB Sync to mirror shared views between bases
• Document Version History with restore for NocoDocs
• New 2-week and 6-week calendar layoutsThe update will be available soon on PikaPods.
Release: https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/releases/tag/2026.06.0
Run it: https://pikapods.com/pods?run=nocodb -
NocoDB turns your database into a smart spreadsheet. The 2026.06.0 release packs some heavy-hitting features. 🚀
Highlights:
• NocoDB Sync to mirror shared views between bases
• Document Version History with restore for NocoDocs
• New 2-week and 6-week calendar layoutsThe update will be available soon on PikaPods.
Release: https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/releases/tag/2026.06.0
Run it: https://pikapods.com/pods?run=nocodb -
Most leaders treat AI data risk as a security problem. A thing to block. I think that's backwards. The data doesn't leak. It walks out the front door, authorized, pasted in by people who believe they're being productive. The control that holds isn't a tool. It's a leader who asked the questions.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sargentjamesa/p/the-risk-is-not-a-breach-its-adoption?r=7o0dk0
#AI #Leadership #DataSovereignty #InfoSec #SystemsThinking #DataGovernance
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Most leaders treat AI data risk as a security problem. A thing to block. I think that's backwards. The data doesn't leak. It walks out the front door, authorized, pasted in by people who believe they're being productive. The control that holds isn't a tool. It's a leader who asked the questions.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sargentjamesa/p/the-risk-is-not-a-breach-its-adoption?r=7o0dk0
#AI #Leadership #DataSovereignty #InfoSec #SystemsThinking #DataGovernance
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The Off-Switch You Do Not Own
On 2 June 2026 Claude went down worldwide, taking the API, the Console, and Claude Code with it, and every business built on the model went down too. Centralised cloud intelligence carries an off-switch the operator does not hold, and the Mickai SIOS removes it by running the intelligence offline, sealed, on hardware you own.
https://mickai.co.uk/articles/the-off-switch-you-do-not-own
#sovereignai #aioutage #airesilience #offlineai #datasovereignty
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"Dit gaat om het beschermen van onze burgers, het verdedigen van onze belangen en het maken van onze eigen keuzes." – Ursula von der Leyen
Dit geldt ook voor jouw data. Jouw dashboards verdienen ook soevereiniteit.
🛡️ Kies voor DataOwn.
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"Dit gaat om het beschermen van onze burgers, het verdedigen van onze belangen en het maken van onze eigen keuzes." – Ursula von der Leyen
Dit geldt ook voor jouw data. Jouw dashboards verdienen ook soevereiniteit.
🛡️ Kies voor DataOwn.
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Mistral AI: Sculpting Compute and Code with an Eye on Europe
Mistral AI is providing GPU cloud services and AI agents like Vibe for businesses in Europe, focusing on data sovereignty and French/European languages.
#MistralAI, #AICLOUD, #AIAgents, #DataSovereignty, #EuropeAI
https://newsletter.tf/mistral-ai-gpu-cloud-ai-agents-europe/
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Mistral AI is building GPU cloud infrastructure and AI agents, aiming to offer European businesses a choice for AI development with a focus on data privacy.
#MistralAI, #AICLOUD, #AIAgents, #DataSovereignty, #EuropeAI
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From the AOF Studio Decentralising the Ledger: Why We Are Off-Boarding from Commercial AI https://www.artoffaceless.com/decentralising-the-ledger-why-we-are-off-boarding-from-commercial-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Decentralisation #OpenSource #AIethics #DataSovereignty #EnvironmentalImpact
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Indeed, the passing of information held within US corporations operating in Europe to the US government is very much how the system is setup to work, and why data and software sovereignty cannot be realized with geolocalized data by any such companies. Instead, the company has to be based in Europe and have its data servers in Europe, operating under European law.
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Indeed, the passing of information held within US corporations operating in Europe to the US government is very much how the system is setup to work, and why data and software sovereignty cannot be realized with geolocalized data by any such companies. Instead, the company has to be based in Europe and have its data servers in Europe, operating under European law.
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The governance conversation is looking at the wrong map. The sovereignty question is already being answered -- in consumer hardware, on a rolling OTA update, for £1,000 from Currys.
The question is whether regulators notice before the framework becomes irrelevant.
#IsleOfMan #DataSovereignty #TechPolicy -
ICYMI #BillC22 - the #MarkCarney government's law to lock #Canada into foreign state access to Canadian data, including under the US CLOUD Act. These #CarneyCons are selling us out. https://engagementcanadapledge.substack.com/p/kate-robertson-bill-c-22-and-carneys
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ICYMI #BillC22 - the #MarkCarney government's law to lock #Canada into foreign state access to Canadian data, including under the US CLOUD Act. These #CarneyCons are selling us out. https://engagementcanadapledge.substack.com/p/kate-robertson-bill-c-22-and-carneys
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🚀 Join OpenProject at the Nextcloud Summit 2026 on June 9th in Munich!
Our CMO & Co-founder Birthe Lindenthal will speak about how organizations can move beyond Jira and regain control of their project and product management with open, sovereign software.
Looking forward to connecting with the community shaping the future of digital sovereignty.
#NextcloudSummit #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #ProjectManagement #SecureCollaboration #DataSovereignty
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🚀 Join OpenProject at the Nextcloud Summit 2026 on June 9th in Munich!
Our CMO & Co-founder Birthe Lindenthal will speak about how organizations can move beyond Jira and regain control of their project and product management with open, sovereign software.
Looking forward to connecting with the community shaping the future of digital sovereignty.
#NextcloudSummit #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #ProjectManagement #SecureCollaboration #DataSovereignty
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US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a 'national security threat' | TechCrunch
> ive been talking about this for years, to deaf ears. We need decentralized health and fitness tracking!
#datasovereignty #healthtracking #fitness #locationtracking #decentralized #decentralizedhealthtracking
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Most technology leaders cannot answer four basic questions about their organization's data. Where is it? Who owns it? Who has access to it? What would it cost to leave?
That isn't a knowledge gap. It's a leadership gap. And in an environment where data lives in someone else's data center, on someone else's hardware, and trains someone else's models, it's no longer defensible.
New series starts here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sargentjamesa/p/four-questions-leaders-need-to-ask?r=7o0dk0
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After you upload your data to the cloud, where does it go? The challenge of dual‑use technologies
#Tech #AI #Data #Cloud #DataSovereignty #CyberSecurity #CloudComputing #Privacy #DualUse #DigitalGovernance #BigTech #AWS #Innovation #Policy #Surveillance
https://the-14.com/after-you-upload-your-data-to-the-cloud-where-does-it-go-the-challenge-of-dual-use-technologies/ -
"There are some companies in Canada working on keeping Canadian data secure." That almost sounds like it's forbidden not to share your data with US Big Tech companies.
#digitalsovereignty #datasovereignty #data
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/05/20/experts-say-canadian-solutions-needed-to-maintain-data-sovereignty/ -
This is intended to introduce a new paradigm in client-side managed secure cryptography. We can avoid registration of any sort. A fairly unique offering in the cybersecurity space.
No need for things like phone numbers or registering to any app stores. There are no databases to be hacked. Allowing users to send E2EE messages and files; no cloud, no trace.
Features:
PWA
P2P
End to end encryption
Signal protocol
Post-Quantum cryptography
Multimedia
File transfer
Video calls
Local-first
No registration
No installation
No database
TURN serverThe live demo is up and running now. We want to build this around what you actually need, so please give the demo a spin and share your feedback, feature requests, or general thoughts in the comments.
Live demo: https://Enkrypted.Chat
#EnkryptedChat #LocalFirst #SelfHosted #Nextcloud #DeGoogle #PrivacyMatter #DataSovereignty #OpenSource #FOSS #IndieWeb #NoSignup #ZeroSetup #WebDev #TechDemocracy #PrivacyTools #Decentralized #CloudAlternative #WebApp #SoftwareDevelopment #TechFreedom #SelfHosting #LocalData #DataPrivacy #NoAccount #TechFeedback #AppDemo
