Building an independent web browsers. It's technically feasible and could cost 50-70 millions per year. In comparison, the national space agency costs 7-8 billions and the European union planned 300 millions in digital architecture over the next years.

The Europe rely currently heavily on US technologies, even Firefox is in the US.

Servo is an example of web browser built with 5 engineers, funded by a small company and individual donations.

The core challenge isn’t technical; it’s institutional. It can work though: CERN, European Space Agency, the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Success here would demonstrate that democratic societies can coordinate effectively on complex technical infrastructure and pass the first hurdle. Failure would reveal institutional gaps that need addressing before attempting more ambitious digital sovereignty goals.

Ça c'est du hard power: les États-Unis peuvent bannir quelqu'un du système de paiement international (VISA, Mastercard, banques).

Le nom de code actuel est Bromo pour cette initiative

"Speak english", "Speak understable English" and "Bonjour" on a European map

A note sent to industry and civil society attending a focus group on Sept. 15, seen by POLITICO, showed the Commission is pondering how to tweak the rules to include more exceptions or make sure users can set their preferences on cookies once (for example, in their browser settings) instead of every time they visit a website.

Yes it is an obvious solution

Une bonne nouvelle jusqu'au prochain projet de surveillance.

Zahlungsystem:

• Revolut
• Wero, der Dienstleister der European Payments Initiative (EPI)

KI-Lösungen:

• Mistral AI entwickelt Open-Source-Sprzchmodellen und auf Privatsphäre achtet
• das deutsche Aleph Alpha fokussiert sich auf KI-Lösungen für Firmenkunden und öffentliche Auftraggeber

The whole EU age verification app thing is so exhausting. Yes, the tech specs are public, yes, the wallet app is opensource, yes, it could be done in a worse way.

Yet, it is still the newest attempt to answer the question: "can we tech hard enough to avoid having parents talking to their kids?"

And the answer is still no, you can't.

And why the website is on .dev owned by Google? Why not .eu? https://ageverification.dev/

À voir comment la directive 2019/882 sera appliquée

Qwant and Ecosia will start to use the Search Trusted API Accees Network (STANN)

DNS4EU doit être européen, mais il est hébergé chez Cloudflare :/

More in-depth: https://techlog.jenslink.net/posts/dns4eu/

(via https://sebsauvage.net/links/?XUs7pg)

La ministre des affaires numériques danoises

Cette réalité, c'est que toutes les administrations américaines ont le pouvoir de déconnecter n'importe quel individu, entreprise ou gouvernement étranger de l'infrastructure numérique fournie par les grandes entreprises américaines. En ce sens, il est donc inutile de blâmer Microsoft pour le pouvoir de sanction dont est investi le Bureau ovale. Mais nous pouvons certainement lui reprocher d'avoir enfumé l'Europe sur les risques.

Cela ne signifie pas qu'il faille se couper de toute technologie américaine, mais cela signifie qu'il faut rejeter tous les services qui peuvent être désactivés à partir de Washington.

Cela intervient avec la mise à jour forcée de Windows 10 vers 11 avec la fin de sa maintenance.

Let's see

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, and the entire tracking-based advertising industry rely on the “Transparency & Consent Framework” (TCF) to obtain “consent” for data processing. This evening the Belgian Court of Appeal ruled that the TCF is illegal. The TCF is live on 80% of the Internet.

Dr Johnny Ryan said "Today's court's decision shows that the consent system used by Google, Amazon, X, Microsoft, deceives hundreds of millions of Europeans. The tech industry has sought to hide its vast data breach behind sham consent popups. Tech companies turned the GDPR into a daily nuisance rather than a shield for people."

Infringements include failing to ensure personal data are kept secure and confidential, fail to properly request consent and TCF (Transparency & Consent Framework) uses "legitimate interest" wrong. TCF fails to provide transparency about data processing.