https://www.politico.eu/article/european-civil-servants-new-messaging-services/
Article
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EU governments pushing civil servants to ditch WhatsApp for sovereign alternatives
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Driven by data sovereignty concerns and distrust of US-controlled platforms
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Signal and Element among likely replacements being evaluated
Discussion
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Why not self-host Matrix/ActivityPub? Commenters ask why EU doesn’t run its own infra
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Concern raised: government-controlled messengers enable convenient message disappearing
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Cynicism about execution: self-built tools historically insecure and ignored by staff
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Geopolitical framing: US political shifts accelerating EU digital sovereignty push
Discuss on HN
