UK tech leaders want the government to stop buying US cloud

New research reveals a surge in interest in data sovereignty among UK IT leaders since the implementation of the United States government's historic raft of tariffs in April. The study from Civo, of over 1,000 UK-based IT leaders, shows more than 60 percent now feel that the UK government’s use of US cloud services exposes the country's digital economy to significant risks, damages its domestic industry, and threatens data security. Nearly half of those surveyed (45 percent) are already actively considering repatriating from the cloud, and 40 percent say that transparency and greater compliance with EU and UK data protection… [Continue Reading]