Not only is it scary to have all your data available to US spying, it is also a huge risk for your business/government continuity. From now on, all our business processes can be brought to a halt with the push of a button in the US. And not only will everything then stop, will we ever get our data back? Or are we being held hostage? This is not a theoretical scenario, something like this has already happened.
Here and there, some parts of at least the Dutch government are deciding not to migrate EVERYTHING to the US (kudos to the government workers who are fighting for this!).
But even here, the details of Dutch policy are that our data will only āfor nowā stay on our own servers. Experts are also doubtful whether itās actually possible with the current āpartial cloudā plan to keep the data here exclusively.
And then we come to the apparent reason why we are putting our head on Trumpās chopping block: āAmerican software is just so easy to useā.
Personally, I donāt know many fans of MS Teams, Office, and Outlook. We are, however, very used to these software products. Weāve become quite good at using them.
But this brings us to the unbearable conclusion that we are entrusting all our data and business processes to the new King of Americaā¦ because we canāt be bothered to get used to a different word processor, or make an effort to support other software.