Keeping app data purely server-side is no longer viable for customers with data sovereignty requirements, and having a toggle button saying 'Keep my data in Europe' isn't enough either because it places too much trust in the SaaS provider.

With network monitoring verifying local applications are accessing user-verified endpoints, privacy reduces to OS-level security.

Suppose I am an indian developer interested to work with European Data sovereignity because imo I value privacy personally just as much as the EU population and it would be great to be more connected and wishing to connect with them more.

So I have thought of using EU options in my servers/services if I use them for the most part and I can even swap out to completely European if need be.

So let's say to be a part of this? should I be an European company? If so, I even looked at it on how to establish a company in Europe rather easily (preferably a lean company) and It seems that Estonia seems the best way for me to create an EU company from my country without too much hassle but the costs of operation does feel like a lot for just starting out let's say.

I am also not sure about the fact that given I live in India, Some data sharing arrangement can be generated or would I have to actually migrate to say EU (which although I love EU, I currently appreciate my country as well and migration is a hassle right now)

I wish if such a manifesto could work for India and EU and a deeper integration could be made between the two countries about such tech related software or other as I have been a vocal supporter of European tech providers like hetzner,ovh etc. and they are even cheaper than american hyperscalers in many/most cases.

All MacOS, iOS, Windows and Android are all produced by the USA. Virtually all chips as well.

It is foolish to assume there are not backdoors in every one of them.

Meaning we should assume the USA can shut down the entire Europe's IT if they really want to.

Then you got the authentication systems, security software (antivirus, proxies like cloudflare, crowdstrike and so on), the various Saas (docs editors, drives, ticket systems, chats...), the payment systems (including Visa and swift, but also Paypal, google pay, stripe, etc), the software stores, the root DNS, the SSL root certificates and a ton of network hardware.

Given the current political situation, it's a very bad spot to be in.

I only knew there is a bad cookie banner when I've opened the website in another browser.

Have mercy, webmasters.

AI slop again?