You have been warned yet again, the US cannot be trusted...
Microsoft, under oath, admits the possibility that EU‑hosted data can be accessed by US agencies without any notifications
In sworn French‑Senate testimony, Microsoft’s legal chief for France(M. Anton Carniaux) conceded he cannot guarantee that data on French citizens stored wholly in EU Microsoft datacenters is safe from U.S. silent access and acknowledged that French or any EU authorities might not even be notified if access occurs.
Delivered under oath, this statement is an official legal recognition of the silent‑access risk inherent in relying on Microsoft’s infrastructure.
If your server runs any software from Microsoft, we can't tell if it complies with GDPR. Based on this confession, likely not.
Your chance of compliance is better if you run open-source software, especially if you audit the code and compile/build it yourself.
@johnlogic @edgeofeurope @devopscats Of course, but it is difficult to treat people for their addiction. Microsoft is like a hard drug. Expensive, addicting and it kills your businness slowly
@os_sci @johnlogic @edgeofeurope @devopscats
Children and young people are generally far more open minded about technology, granted they go with the flow of what is available BUT if we start putting FOSS into schools and get kids to build software they want and services they want, things can change from grassroots up.
A lot of kids want a safer experience online, and have been demanding this for years, nothing actually seems to change.
@zleap @johnlogic @edgeofeurope @devopscats interesting I see a lot of people young and old who are not interested, maybe also because they have no knowledge about foss
@os_sci @johnlogic @edgeofeurope @devopscats
Yeah, that is the biggest problem, awareness that FOSS exists, then onboarding has to be a positive experience.
The fsf do a great job, but there are people on those forums who think we should just install a 100 percent free software OS (eg tresquel), and if a component such as a wifi hardware does not work, we simply don't use wifi,
For those of us in the 'real world' this is hardly an option. I use LinuxMint, it works really well on my Lenovo hardware, granted that may be with a one or two blobs of non-free stuff on there.
The whole foss community need to remember not everyone out there is technical with software, would you ask a brain surgeon to recompile your kernel or as a kernel developer to operate on your brain. We all have our areas of expertise, and use tools to help with our jobs.
