# How sovereign do you want to be?

DevFeed: [How sovereign do you want to be?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-sovereign-do-you-want-to-be-36442.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-sovereign-do-you-want-to-be/>)

Published: 2024-05-23T08:48:26Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [communications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/communications.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>)

Tags: [autonomy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomy.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [communications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/communications.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [policy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/policy.md>), [risk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/risk.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines digital sovereignty through confidentiality, flexibility, and resilience. It questions Dutch parliamentary data access arrangements involving Microsoft and the US government, and contrasts outsourced infrastructure with the local capacity needed to repair systems during crises.

## Source excerpt

Sovereignty is a great word, and it has a nice ring to it. Everyone would like to be sovereign, but being so comes with costs and inconveniences. Therefore, it's useful to break down the concept to see what we really mean by it and what we'd be prepared to do to be "sovereign". Confidentiality is often the first thing that comes to mind. Who can read all our communications and files?