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In Belgium, our Minister of Defence talks about buying services from Palantir, and wants to let Oracle build a cloud for the Defence department. He even dares t

In Belgium, our Minister of Defence talks about buying services from Palantir, and wants to let Oracle build a cloud for the Defence department. He even dares to say that this will result in our own Sovereign Data Streams [1]. I can imagine this is a guy that will have not a single issue sharing the requested data with the US Government, even in the face of the recent hostility of the US towards the EU. [1] https://x.com/FranckenTheo/status/1975429782432055712 https://x.com/FranckenTheo/status/1975429782432055712

wolvoleo 9mo ago
And that's the country that hosts the EU. What could go wrong :(
- hulitu 9mo ago
  > could ? did.
volleyball 9mo ago
A quick glance at his twitter - you would think he is a minister of some middle-eastern country rather than Belgium. I didn't know about this man before but your comment about "A European minister shilling for Palantir and Oracle" was enough. I am sorry to say your defence minister has a foreign paymaster and it isn't Russia or even the United States.
hermanzegerman 9mo ago
Germany's Defence Ministry awarded the contract for their sovereign Cloud to Google Cloud. We really have the biggest morons representing us https://www.heise.de/news/Bundeswehr-setzt-auf-Google-Cloud-10397414.html https://www.heise.de/news/Bundeswehr-setzt-auf-Google-Cloud-...