Congress just killed a military "right to repair" law. So now, US soldiers stationed abroad will have to continue the Pentagon's proud tradition of shipping materiel from generators to jeeps back to America to be fixed by their manufacturers
The US military 'just' lost their anticircumvention exemption.
btw, this doesn't happen just w US products, see trains in Poland. So there may be internal counterforces to this in the EU.
This is exactly the kind of infrastructural risk that we were warned of if we let Chinese companies like Huawei supply our critical telecoms equipment. Virtually every government ministry, every major corporation, every small business and every household in the world have locked themselves into a US-based, cloud-based service.
Warning of Chinese intrusion but not seeing the US one etc
The alternative was tariffs. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we've got tariffs now!
US exported anticircumvention in their trade deals and won it to avoid tariffs. Doesn't say how that worked for the EU
[[Cory Doctorow p]] oped in Guardian, on US tech policy and enshittification. Points out that the US basically reneged on a deal (no tariffs if you allow our tech, but now we have the tariffs) so we can renege our part of it (circumvention laws). This aimed at UK audience, points out that that circumvention is inside a EU reg (art 6 of Copyright and Information Society Directive 2001) so it would be relatively easy after brexit to ditch the thing
Note 2001/29 has been amended by Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market 2019/790, but I don't think in this aspect.
American hyperscalers have recognized the market demand for sovereignty and now aggressively market 'sovereign cloud' solutions, typically by placing datacenters on European soil or partnering with local operators. Critics call this ‘sovereignty washing’. Caffarra warns that this does not resolve the fundamental problem. "A company subject to the extraterritorial laws of the United States cannot be considered sovereign for Europe," she says. "That simply doesn't work." Because, as long as the parent company is American, it remains subject to the CLOUD Act.
Indeed, any US involvement is a disqualification bc of the Cloud Act
https://web.archive.org/web/20260106135449/https://www.dnsbelgium.be/en/news/dns-belgium-leaves-aws
DNS Belgium runs on AWS currently. Decided to leave AWS. Out of geopolitical concern.
Ook andere landen hebben inmiddels hun samenwerking met de Verenigde Staten ingeperkt, uit zorg dat gedeelde informatie wordt gebruikt voor militaire acties die mogelijk botsen met internationaal recht en mensenrechten. Canada en het Verenigd Koninkrijk hebben de regels voor informatie-uitwisseling aangescherpt, terwijl Frankrijk openlijk afstand heeft genomen van Amerikaanse militaire drugsoperaties buiten een internationaal en juridisch kader. Binnen de Europese Unie is afgesproken dat lidstaten geen gegevens delen die kunnen bijdragen aan dodelijke acties op zee.
Diff other countries also halted their collab with the US. Canada and UK have limited their intelligence sharing. EU MS will not share info that may be used for extrajudicial killings in international waters by the US navy.
AI-top in Parijs ging en daar publiekelijk zei dat als wij Amerikaanse bedrijven beboeten, zij de NAVO zullen verlaten
AI dereg to keep NATO alive. Vgl AI omnibus
Chinese producers are close to being monopolists not only in rare earths, but also electronics products, batteries, and many types of active pharmaceutical ingredients
strategic autonomy is eroded across the stack, and across several sectors. See EU efforts wrt rare earth, the prev race on African continent etc.
Last month was Trump’s 28-point Russia-Ukraine war peace proposal, presented without consultation with Ukraine. Now, the U.S. National Security Strategy claims that Europe is in “economic decline” and experiencing “civilizational erasure,” and it openly endorses parties hostile to the European Union.
the support for far-right, dismantling of EU is a measure of the threat Europe poses to zero-sum interests of US admin, also on individual level.
But while many thought they had cracked the code for managing Trump, the U.S. attacks on Europe have only multiplied over time
in zero sum thinking getting appeased is winning so push harder. (Vgl my experiences in former Soviet Union localities, much the same thing)
they converge into a strategy built to implement Trump administration’s geoeconomic ambitions: complete regulatory freedom for Silicon Valley tech companies in Europe and a commercial reset with Russia at the expense of Ukrainian and European sovereignty.
US admin perception of Europe
NVIDIA lost ~$593bn in market cap as investors panicked that AI maybe wasn’t an American monopoly after all.
yup. key phrase, much of the AI bubble is the presumption of US monopoly. Watching other, sometimes less visible efforts is important wrt autonomy, sovereignty
Virginia based US bigtech lobby "Chamber of Progress" 'be afraid, very afraid' piece on European digital market and digital sovereignty.
It calls itself 'center-left', as if that exists in the USA.
In februari zegt Vance tijdens een speech op de jaarlijkse veiligheidsconferentie in München onder meer dat Europa zichzelf van binnenuit uitholt. De democratie in de EU zou niet meer functioneren, wat onder meer zou komen door de Europese regels voor de digitale wereld – die in de praktijk vooral de grote Amerikaanse sociale mediabedrijven als Meta en X treffen.
The Feb 2025 security conf in M another turning point where US admin turns on EU digital regs as threat to democracy. US admin coopted by bigtech becomes more clear
* "Digital platforms are used for hybrid campaigns."* "EU can't compete with US tech ON THEIR TERMS."* "Post-reality US is what happens when tech is unregulated."* "Ireland is a Trojan Horse for Big Tech."* "The Digital Omnibus is sabotage."
Quotes van [[Defend Democracy o]] event w DK EU presidency cohosting. All convey an aspect of where work is needed. On each I see one could define [[Handelen 20040327155224]] as [[SC landscape van EU Dataspace]] interventions and broader.
the last one pertains to the AI / GDPR omnibus, not the data one, I think.
Executive Order 12333, 1981 (Reagan's 1st year). Extends US Intelligence powers.
Indien de Algemene Rijksvoorwaarden bij IT-overeenkomsten 2022 (ARBIT-2022)6 van toepassing verklaard is op de overeenkomst is er een ontbindingsgrond als er sprake is van een ingrijpende wijziging in de zeggenschap (wat het geval kan zijn bij fusies en overnames) met betrekking tot de onderneming van de wederpartij/opdrachtnemer. Door de landsadvocaat wordt momenteel onderzocht in hoeverre dit het geval is. Indien door de overname de nakoming van de verwerkersovereenkomst en de naleving van de AVG wordt bemoeilijkt of zelfs onmogelijk wordt, kan dit een grond vormen om de dienstverleningsovereenkomst respectievelijk de verwerkersovereenkomst te ontbinden. Dit laat overigens onverlet de mogelijkheid om in een concreet geval een overeenkomst op basis van de Algemene Rijksvoorwaarden op te kunnen zeggen.
Drie paden voor opzeggen ihkv Solvinity obv IT voorwaarden bij wijziging zeggenschap obv AVG als naleving en verwerkersovereenkomst onmogelijk wordt (bijv door buitenlandse inmenging) obv Alg Rijksvoorwaarden mbt ontbinding (afkopen ws?)
En hoe zit het met third country regels bij EU wetgeving en aanbesteding? Die lijken me hier ook relevant
Expect geo-fenced product design: "EU mode" platforms with different algorithmic defaults, transparency flows, and researcher access versus "US mode."
yes, likely in the short term. Thing is: once people globally see the outcome of those diff modes, which will they prefer? Vgl GDPR
U.S. willingness to treat compliance as hostile action changes the calculation.
yes, it means the USA cannot be treated as an equal or rational counterpart. n:: EU moving to adversarial interoperability in a sense? n:: Brusselscountereffect?
That increases risk premium on firms whose EU revenues depend on algorithmic distribution: social platforms, digital advertising, app stores, marketplace ranking.
in contradiction to the entrenching above. Of these adtech is the key thing, and algorithms aimed for engagement (ie rage)
The irony both sides miss: this conflict could entrench the very platforms Trump claims to defend and Europe claims to regulate. Compliance burden becomes incumbent moat.
Not following. By def the strictest stuff applies to the largest platforms, so no moat. n:: The compliance burden is progressive, like taxes are /should be.
The DSA doesn't mandate content removal based on viewpoint; it requires transparency in algorithmic curation, researcher access to platform data, and accountability for enforcement decisions. What the Trump administration calls "censorship," Europe frames as democratic governance of the digital public square—the same principle that makes "what is illegal offline illegal online."
Yes, such paragraphs need to be up front.
a sharper conflict emerges: this is about who owns the distribution layer of democracy—who sets the rules for how speech gets amplified, throttled, demonetized, and made discoverable on platforms where most political discourse now occurs.
yes, sort of. 'distribution layer of democracy' interesting phrase. amplification, throttling, monetisation (Freudian misspelling there?), discoverability all important. But the key thing: the platforms in question are not platforms in the strict sense, they actively shape the information there. So liability protections for platforms should not apply. Or gov also can set the boundaries of such shaping.
The EU had just levied a €120 million fine on X for DSA violations—the first major enforcement action under rules requiring platforms to moderate illegal content
There are many other fines levied (all without making any dents in the behaviour fined though), the 120ME one for Twitter was the first under DSA illegal content rules (which don't specify what illegal content, but mechanisms for moderation against them)
Das US-Anerikanische Hardland-Institut, lobbyiert inzwischen durch Vermittlung der FPÖ auch bei der EU in Brüssel you Benedikt Naudov-Slaski zeigt in einem Artikel im Falter auf, dass das Institut selbst bei der Darstellung der eigenen angeblichen Erfolge unseres Arbeiter. Herzlandvertreter behaupten, kommen ein EU-Klimagesetz gestoppt zu haben. Und nennen dafür ein Datum, kann man an dem tatsächlich nur eine ungarische Ministerin gegen die EU-Renaturierungsverordnung argumentiert hat, kann man die dann aber schließlich angenommen worden. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000254766/wie-us-klimawandelleugner-fake-news-ueber-die-eu-verbreiten-und-die-fpoe-ihnen-dabei-hilft
EU General Court rules on narrow challenge to EU-US data agreement letting it stand. Bound to be appealed at CJEU. NOYB thinks General Court departed strongly from earlier CJEU decisions (Schrems I and II) as current agreement doesn't really have new formulations, and that General Court accepts the independence DPCR which is not what the current reality in US is.
Swiss Joseph de Weck, fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, posits that the shock in CH about US regime tariffs may drive them closer to the EU. Mentions process towards upcoming 2028 referendum on renewing EU economic treaties (https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/swiss-government-approves-package-measures-closer-eu-ties-2025-06-13/) as potentially impacted by the US snub.
Ende April 2025 forderte der EU-Energiekommissar Dan Jørgensen erneut mehr LNG-Importe aus den USA, um die Abhängigkeit von russischem Gas zu verringern. Die EU plant, bis 2027 kein russisches Gas mehr zu beziehen. Kritiker, wie Greenpeace, warnen jedoch vor den höheren Kosten und Klimaschäden von LNG und fordern stattdessen Investitionen in erneuerbare Energien.
[Zusammenfassung mit Mistral generiert] https://taz.de/Unabhaengigkeit-von-russischem-Gas/!6082106/
Die Tat interview die Politologin Sonja Tiges zur Antikrimapolitik der Trampadministration in ihren ersten 100 Tagen. Tielges betont unter anderem, dass die Trumpregierung eine Energiedominanz anstrebt und andere Länder dazu drängt, das fossile Modell beizubehalten. Möglicherweise strebe China eine Gegenposition an, unter anderem verändere sich die Bereitschaft klimafinanzend zur Verfügung zu stellen in China.
https://taz.de/Wissenschaftlerin-zur-US-Klimapolitik/!6081981/
EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen will nach einem Gespräch mit Donald Trump offenbar zusätzliches LNG aus den USA beziehen, um Schutzzölle zu verhindern. Das Gas solle LNG aus Russland ersetzen. LNG aus Russland wird von der EU bisher nicht mit Sanktionen belegt. Die USA sind bereits der größte LNG-Lieferant der EU.
ARD-Artikel zu LNG-Importen aus Russland: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/monitor/russland-fluessiggas-lng-eu-100.html
Zu den LNG-Importen aus den USA: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/de/infographics/eu-gas-supply/
EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen schlägt vor, russische LNG-Lieferungen durch amerikanische zu ersetzen, um den Handelsüberschuss der EU zu verringern und Strafzölle abzuwenden.
Die Methan-Emissionen steigen in den USA wie international weiter, im Widerspruch zu den Zusagen des Global Methane Pledge. Eine Hauptursache ist die weiter zunehmende Förderung von Öl und Gas. Neue Auswertungen des Instituts Kayrros ergeben detaillierter als bisher Cass die Emissionen in13 grossen Öl- und Gas-Fördergebieten mit zwei Ausnahmen gewachsen sind. Hintergrundbericht, auch über Maßnahmen der Biden-Administration und EU- zur Reduktion der Emissionen. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/climate/us-methane-greenhouse-gas.html
Kayrros-Artikel: https://www.energyintel.com/00000187-9953-d12b-a7bf-9dfb5fb60000
Die EU hat nicht erreicht, dass Mittel aus dem Inflation Reduction Act auch zur Subventionierung des Kaufs von aus der EU gelieferten privaten E-Autos verwendet werden. Bei der Entscheidung der USA, die in der EU-Wirtschaft vielfach als protektionistisch bewertet wird, spielt die Herkunft von Mineralien eine große Rolle. Die Verhandlungen über das Critical Minerals Agreement (CMA) führten nicht zu einer Einigung. Der Handelsblatt-Artikel stellt den komplexen Hintergrund ausführlich dar und berichtet auch über weitere Verhandlungen.
Nach der Invasion der ganzen Ukraine durch Russland wurde russisches Gas in Europa vor allem durch LNG-Importe aus den USA ersetzt. Damit tauscht man eine Abhängigkeit durch eine andere ein, statt die Erneuerbaren entschiedener auszubauen. Ausführlicher Bericht von Bloomberg über die damit verbundenen Risiken. Als erstes Zeichen für Schwierigkeiten wird die Verzögerung der Genehmigung von CP2 gewertet. https://www.energyconnects.com/news/gas-lng/2024/january/gas-addicted-europe-trades-one-energy-risk-for-another/
Bei seinem Besuch in Amerika wird Emmanuel macron vor allem über die Konsequenzen des Inflation reduction act für die europäische Wirtschaft sprechen. Die US-Regierung wird den Übergang zu sauberen Energien so subventionieren, dass die gesamte Wertschöpfungskette in den USA bleibt. Macron behandelt das einerseits als ein unfreundlichen Akt und setzt sich andererseits für entsprechende Subventionen in Europa ein. Der Artikel in der Libération erwähnt auch die geopolitische Dimension dieses interessenkonflikts, weil Europa auf das amerikanische Engagement für die Ukraine angewiesen ist
Title : Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values: Next Steps for the United States Content : In Dartmouth University , appears AI as sciences however USA motionless a national AI policy comparing to Europe where The Council of Europe is developing the first international AI convention and earlier UE launched the European data privacy law, the General Data Privacy Regulation.
In addition, China's efforts to become “world leader in AI by 2030, as long as China is developing a digital structures matched with The one belt one road project . USA , did not contribute to UNESCO AI Recommendations however USA It works to promote democratic values and human rights and integrate them with the governance of artificial intelligence .
USA and UE are facing challenges with transatlantic data flows , with Ukrainian crises The situation became more difficult. In order to reinstate leadership in AI policy, the United States should advance the policy initiative launched last year by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Strengthening efforts to support AI Bill of rights .
EXCERPT: USA believe that foster public trust and confidence in AI technologies and protect civil liberties, privacy, and American values in their application can establish responsible AI in USA. Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/artificial-intelligence-and-democratic-values-next-steps-united-states Topic : AI and Democratic values Country : United States of America
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European Union, Japan and the United States
Find out specifically which of these are "open" and if they are all focused on neuroscience?