GAFAM: Zemmour, Le Pen, Montebourg and Mélenchon step up to the plate
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft… They are the kings of digital technology and they follow us everywhere, from our phones to our computers, including our personal assistants. Like polite and deceptively helpful little spies, they spy on us, harvest our information, and ultimately know us better than our families and friends. Except that our friends known by the acronym GAFAM have only one goal: to empty our purses! Apart from this specific lens, they have another point in common: they are all american. A few months before the presidential election, French politicians confide their concern about this reality of the facts and the solutions they propose to counter the problem.
Giving is giving, taken back, is it stolen?
You should know that the US government may require access to data stored on servers owned by Google, Amazon or Microsoft. He can therefore legally get his hands on all the information of international companies that use it on a daily basis. What to launch gently into industrial espionage in all legality. Asked by Point, the columnist Eric Zemmour, tipped to be a candidate for the presidential elections, asks a government reaction to avoid this situation in the future.
This poses a risk to our independence, our sovereignty and the protection of strategic and personal data. (…) It’s a real hold-up! France must pull itself together and invest massively in a sovereign French ecosystem, then make it compulsory for the data of the State, administrations and strategic companies.
According to him, the solution would therefore come from the creation of a ” national sovereign cloud Which would allow independence. He also cites a few French companies that could do the trick, such as OVHcloud, Whaller, Scaleway and Wimi.
Éric Zemmour: “It’s a real hold-up of the Gafam! ” https://t.co/ublJ06u1gJ
– Le Point (@LePoint) November 7, 2021
Same story at Marine Le Pen, the president of the National Rally, for whom ” everything that falls within the sovereign or strategic domain of the State must be excluded from such partnerships “. It calls for the French Republic to favor national independence for everything that is preserving the government’s strategic data.
(…) The National Gathering calls for the establishment of national and European preference, in this area as in all the others. When it comes to strategic or sensitive projects, we obviously believe it is necessary to limit calls for tenders to only national companies.
Blue, white, move!
For his part, Arnaud Montebourg He also advocates Made in France and joins the two aforementioned on the fact that the government must use French services to host its data. He explains that it is possible easily and that the offer already exists, taking himself as an example.
For the laremontada.fr site, we are working with the Nantes nugget Clever Cloud, which we found via the Euclidia association, promoter of European cloud solutions as an alternative to Gaia-X. (…) We host personal data and all our contacts in the OHME CRM dedicated to non-profit actors and in SendinBlue for the routing of our e-mails. These are two French companies whose head offices are in France and whose servers are in France and Europe according to the most demanding GDPR standards.
“I believe that the time has come to break the GAFAM system. You are prohibiting them from having more than 50% of the markets”, estimates @montebourg which recommends that “public contracts be reserved for European companies”. #CVR pic.twitter.com/RvCe5gxp82
– LCP (@LCP) November 2, 2021
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the candidate of rebellious France, ” Data control is one of the strategic challenges of our digital age. “. He points the finger this dependence of France in this area on other countries. He too is worried that the US intelligence service may demand the delivery of data held by GAFAM. The politician further argues that the country has all the cards in its hands to change things, and made a proposal to support the tricolor creation in the near future.
France has the means to be at the forefront of digital excellence, as it has often been. (…) We are therefore proposing to create a public agency for free software, which will plan their development according to the needs of our public services as well as of our businesses.
Whatever the next policy at the head of state, this question of the safeguard of sensitive data will undoubtedly be at the center of certain debates. Even if with the Secretary of State in charge of the Digital Transition and Electronic Communications in a Google jersey, we already know what it will be complicated …
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