François Ruffin: Reform SecNumCloud to ban mixed United States/France consortia
Proposal put forward by François Ruffin on October 15, 2026. Topic: Sovereign Hosting and Moratorium. The observatory also publishes quotes from 12 other public figures on this topic.
For cloud services, the SecNumCloud certification will be reformed to ban mixed United States/France consortia (such as Thales-Google), which circumvent the sovereignty objective without providing any real guarantee against the Cloud Act. It will be reserved for actors under European law
Original quote (French)
Pour les services cloud, la certification SecNumCloud sera réformée pour interdire les consortiums mixtes États-Unis/France (type Thales-Google), qui contournent l’objectif de souveraineté sans apporter de garantie réelle contre le Cloud Act. Elle sera réservée aux acteurs de droit européenSource: nouspresident.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Antoine Mikolajczak: Deploy a European cloud and repatriate data centers to European territory
- Bernard Cazeneuve: Storing French citizens' data in Europe, under European law
- 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
- 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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