“It’s Just a Small Pilot” Is How We Lose Strategic Autonomy
Shadow IT and 'free trials' are the Trojan Horses of digital colonization. How to stop the drift into dependency.
Sven Civic
The Digital Sovereign The Hague
Former Digital Attaché for the diplomatic service. He moved to municipal government expecting a quiet life. He was wrong. Now he treats a SaaS contract like a geopolitical treaty and views 'cloud dependency' as a national security risk. Writes here because he knows that if the City Hall server is compromised, the water stops running.
The Jurisdiction Checklist: 9 Questions We Ask Before We Sign
A procurement checklist to ensure data sovereignty. Stop buying software like office supplies and start treating contracts like treaties.
“EU Region” Is Not a Border: The Cloud Act in Plain Language
Why physical server location does not guarantee legal immunity from foreign subpoenas, and how to protect citizen data.