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Microsoft admits under oath it can't protect French data from US government access. (ppc.land)
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[โ€“] mat@jlai.lu 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The national Police is planning to renew all the computers not supported by windows 11 while our Gendarmerie (same thing but different) is using Ubuntu since approximately 17 years. The head of Polytechnique signed a deal with microsoft to put restricted zones on o365. We are not there yet and it is a fucking shame. All the usual state contractors are hand in hand with microsoft so I don't see any move in the close future. It could be easy to fine the USA companies into oblivion because they can't respect GDPR but the EU is too submissive for that.

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

France has been right about digital sovereignty since the beginning. It's a little disappointing that it hasn't gone very far. Maybe this will give it new momentum.

If the Gendarmerie can do it, the national police should be able to too, but from what I read, they are years behind on wages.

[โ€“] mat@jlai.lu 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In my opinion, only one of them should exists or they should be responsible for each other instead of internal investigation, firstly, but the police is not part of the military so that's a first point, and with our fascist interior minister (responsible for the police), i don't think this is a priority. I am sure that migrating to gendbuntu would not be too hard for the police, but it seems that they are rivals so I don't see it coming. Kinda deadlocked as a situation

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are rivals? Why? That doesn't make much sense. Shouldn't they be colleagues?

[โ€“] mat@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago

Rivalry between two state organizations with the same role is to be expected I guess. Maybe some historical too as the roots of the national police lay in Vichy's France...