The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries’ attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners’ data, arguing that data sovereignty laws threaten the advancement of AI services and technology, Reuters reported, citing an internal diplomatic cable.
The cable, signed by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, says such laws would “disrupt global data flows, increase costs and cybersecurity risks, limit AI and cloud services, and expand government control in ways that can undermine civil liberties and enable censorship,” according to the report.
The cable pushes diplomats to “counter unnecessarily burdensome regulations, such as data localization mandates.” It also orders them to track proposals that would promote data sovereignty laws, and urged diplomats to promote the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum, an international group that claims to enable “trusted data flows globally through international data protection and privacy certifications.”
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would increase costs
For us? Microsoft licences aren’t exactly cheap, keep getting more expensive, and every single basic functionality is an extra.
cybersecurity risks,
Trust the megacorp with a huge target on its back that will deny any responsibility when it fucks up instead.
limit AI and cloud services
Sounds exclusively like a “you” problem.
expand government control in ways that can undermine civil liberties and enable censorship,
Sure, give that control to the US government instead.
Fuck that bullshit. Hopefully no clueless politician falls for it.
When the dogs start barking, we are doing something right
Same fella that just told the EU that the US is its child and always will be. Hmmm, how many parents take the advice of their young teenaged kids?
Is the rest of the world as lobby -able as the US? Guess we’ll find out
Europe is. More lobbyists than MEPs + staff in Brussels, by a factor of 3 to 1.
