Bernard Cazeneuve: Storing French citizens' data in Europe, under European law
Proposal put forward by Bernard Cazeneuve on July 15, 2026. Topic: Sovereign Hosting and Moratorium. The observatory also publishes quotes from 12 other public figures on this topic.
That of French citizens cannot live on servers subject to the law of another power, free one day to consult it or to seize it. Keeping it in Europe, under our law, meets the same requirement
Original quote (French)
Celles des Français ne peuvent vivre sur des serveurs soumis au droit d’une autre puissance, libre un jour de les consulter ou de s’en saisir. Les garder en Europe, sous notre loi, répond à la même exigenceSource: assets.nationbuilder.com · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Antoine Mikolajczak: Deploy a European cloud and repatriate data centers to European territory
- Bruno Le Maire: Building a world-scale data storage and processing infrastructure in Europe
- Bruno Retailleau: Organizing sovereign computing capacity in three circles: sovereign functions, French industry, European
- David Lisnard: Protecting health data through a sovereign framework for hosting and cybersecurity
- Emmanuel Dubuisson: Equipping France with sovereign data center hubs, some of them in the Outre-mer
- Florian Philippot: Host strategic data on public servers or servers under ANSSI control, exit the GAFAM in 3 years
- François Ruffin: Reform SecNumCloud to ban mixed United States/France consortia
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Build a public cloud made up of interconnected public data centers
- Juan Branco: Develop sovereign data storage solutions on the OVH model
- Marine Tondelier: Host sensitive data in data centers located in France owned by European players
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: Impose reversibility clauses to recover data stored on non-sovereign servers
- Sarah Knafo: Host sensitive data on sovereign infrastructure
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