Giacomo Tesio@giacomo@snac.tesio.it
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
Way too overcomplicated and loosey defined.
#DigitalSovereignty is quite simple to define when you understand few #cybernetic concepts and #sovereignty itself.
First, the use value of data (and #personalData in particular) grows (at least) exponentially, doubling with each new bit you collect on a person, a community and so on.
Second, the copying data leaves no evidence.
By these simple postulates, it follows that no nation can claim digital sovereignty if any person or corporation that responds to external laws can access (directly or indarectly) or prevent access to data about their citizens, companies or organization.
That's it.
This is the basic building block of any real sovereignty, since without it, people cannot be citizens or sudite, just users.
On top of "digital sovereignty" we can then build a democratic national cyberspace, or a oppressive one.
To make it democratic we should also add a political priciple: "No data access without representation".
But as long as, say, #Google and #Apple can access any data on any smartphone by simply pushing a #backdoor in a system update of a specific user or group, and #Microsoft can do the same with most pc and laptop... as long both Google, Microsoft, #Cloudflare, #IBM and #Amazon can access data they host and elaborate "in the cloud", there is no ownership, no control and for sure there can be no #trust in them.
Sure #opensource is not enough: if #RedHat can technically uploas a backdoored opensource #Linux kernel image (or whatever), to a #EU organization that enabled automatic updates on their data centers, talking about trust and "digital sovereignty" is just smoke in the eyes, even if they send the backdoor's sources along with the kernel image to comply with #GPL.
In other terms, there is no way that the #GMAFIA can provide #DigitalSovereigntyAsAService to #EuropeanUnion.
Giacomo Tesio@giacomo@snac.tesio.it
no nation can claim digital sovereignty if any person or corporation that responds to external laws can access (directly or indarectly) or prevent access to data about their citizens, companies or organization.This doesn't make such data "unprotected", obviously. But the protection applied to such publicly available data (be them contents created by citizens or their personal data) is unrelated to a Nation's sovereignty.
Obviously, except data that people, companies and organizations intentionally make public for anyone.
/cc @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net