European Union to Put Restrictions on US Cloud Providers

The European Union decides to restrict EU government use of US cloud providers for sensitive data, significant and dramatic shift in European digital strategy, this week US President Donald Trump has declared EU as Hub for Terrorism and this decision by the EU is clearly a sign for the near future the only better ally left for US is on the verge to be apart from US enthusiasm. According to officials familiar with the talks, the Tech Sovereignty Package announced May 27 will include proposals limiting financial, judicial, and health data processing to European cloud infrastructure, according to EU research reports EU citizens data was compromised and they had to face a lot of cases within EU region.

Europe’s dependence on US cloud dominance has reached an important crossroads. Under the “US Cloud Act of 2018”, US authorities may demand reach to data hosted by US corporations no matter where that data physically resides, which raises security fears for the European government as they process sensitive data belonging to European citizens. Formerly many EU parliamentarians has raised concerns over this issue but they all had to face criticism and threats from US.