Today (May 19) presentation at the Handelsblatt Data Protection Conference in Berlin: “Digital sovereignty – data protection as a strategic success factor for cloud, data rooms and AI”.
The focus was on the question of how Europe can operationalize digital sovereignty in practice: not as a buzzword, but as a legally, technically and economically resilient governance model. Data protection is not just compliance, but a strategic factor for cloud architectures, data rooms, AI governance and public procurement.
This is particularly evident in the interplay between the GDPR, the Data Act, cloud switching rules, third-country access and the debate on the sovereign cloud. The storage location alone is not enough. The decisive factor is who actually exercises control over data, keys, administration and infrastructures.
My core thesis: digital sovereignty is not created by concepts, but by enforceable options – portability, interoperability, key sovereignty, genuine exit strategies and resilient European infrastructures.
Many thanks to Handelsblatt for the invitation and the exciting discussion in Berlin.
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