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CLOUD Act vs GDPR: The Legal Conflict Every EU Enterprise Must Understand in 2026
How the US CLOUD Act creates compliance risks for EU businesses—and how Sovereign Sky's expertise helps navigate this complex regulatory landscape If your organisation must comply with the GDPR, you need to understand the US CLOUD Act. Passed in 2018, it allows US authorities to demand data from US-based providers, even when that data is stored in EU datacentres. This directly contradicts GDPR Article 48, which requires that foreign authorities obtain an international agreeme
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Big Tech's "Sovereign Cloud" Promises Collapse—Under Oath
Microsoft, AWS, Google, and Salesforce executives admit under oath and in court what their marketing denied: they cannot protect European data from US government access. Here's what enterprises must know. Microsoft's French Senate testimony, June 2025: Anton Carniaux, General Manager of Microsoft France, testified under oath that he "cannot guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, even when hosted by Microsoft under a government procurement agreement, wouldn't be ha
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