Among all this talk of European sovereignty and switching to European alternatives in a move to better privacy and less support of Big Tech, I wish for more emphasis on not just blindly copying US products and slapping an EU label on it. I see news like the Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution backing away from using Palantir and using a software solution from France instead. I’m supposed to feel happy reading this, and admittedly I did not yet dig into ArgonOS deeply - but all I can think of as a first reaction is “I don’t want an EU version of Palantir.” I don’t want ‘GDPR-compliant’ facial recognition and behavioral surveillance in our cities. I don’t want more privacy-friendly warfare (???). I don’t want more tech-enabled discrimination from next door. I don’t want supposedly European alternative that’s still based on AWS and Microslop. We need to be critical and take a stand against EU-washing, in which unethical business concepts or structures get…
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