> The "The Digital Sovereignty Revolution" survey found 84 percent of UK IT leaders are now concerned that geopolitical developments could threaten their abilit

> The "The Digital Sovereignty Revolution" survey found 84 percent of UK IT leaders are now concerned that geopolitical developments could threaten their ability to access and control their data, and 61 percent of organizations say sovereignty is a strategic priority. The joke is that it's the UK government that actually want to snoop on the data, apparently in the name of child safety [1], the same people that have repeatedly failed to act on child safety right in front of them [2]. Bare in mind that the UK can just issue a TCN [3]: > Technical Capability Notices - TCNs – are secret orders that could compel any company in any jurisdiction, so long as they have sufficient connection to the UK, to make changes to their service to facilitate the UK's use of its investigatory powers. These changes could reduce the service's security, including by removing electronic protection (such as encryption). You can't even say it's not a real threat, because it just happened to Apple [4], which they tried to hold in complete secrecy [5]. Apple is struggling and have an almighty legal team and almost bottomless resources, your little UK company has no hope. I think that the article's framing is wrong about Trump and tariffs, and that de-clouding is more about getting off the hype-train and reducing costs. I suspect multiple companies realised that they don't need a thousand micro-services and that they can run comfortably from several bare metal servers. [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/end-to-end-encryption-and-child-safety/end-to-end-encryption-and-child-safety https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/end-to-end-encryp... [2] https://news.sky.com/story/grooming-gangs-scandal-timeline-what-happened-what-inquiries-there-were-and-how-starmer-was-involved-after-elon-musks-accusations-13285021 https://news.sky.com/story/grooming-gangs-scandal-timeline-w... [3] https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5547/our-challenge-against-uks-secret-tcn-powers https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5547/our-challeng... [4] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/07/uk-confronts-apple-with-demand-for-cloud-backdoor-to-users-encrypted-data https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/07/uk-confro... [5] https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/investigatory-powers-tribunal-ipt-apple-rejects-secrecy-encryption-bare-details/ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/investigatory-powers-tr...