In this article in English, German Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich clearly said : ” anyone who fears that their communications may be intercepted in some way, it should use services that do not pass through American servers”.

Clearly this disruptive statement is part of the Datagate Prism scandal which sees the revelations of Edward Snowden ascertain a systematic espionage of all data passing through the network .

Germany, as well as France , is, without too many words, pointing the index on the American system and on all the stars and stripes OTTs that hold most of the traffic generated by individuals and companies.

We are at an epochal crossroads, where some European states are waking up from the dangerous sleep induced by an increasingly invasive and increasingly subtle technology, becoming aware that this economic crisis also involves the loss of competitiveness induced by those who compete unfairly on the market, produces misleading advertising and pays no taxes in the territories where it generates enormous income.

In Italy we are always at the bottom of the list, even if some of the political representatives start to “raise the crest” muttering something about the scandal ( already widely known ) by Prism.

Considering that France and Germany are taking action by starting to propose a tax on OTTs , it seems that they can no longer remain helpless against the excessive power of these subjects and that they even want to plan an alternative network…

Meanwhile all that is “cloud” will undergo a significant downsizing, although the prophets of this paradigm continue to preach ( without any real evidence ) savings on infrastructure and increased efficiency (….perhaps of those who will spy on the data without even breaking European and local laws because all they will have to do is open the folders, falsely encrypted, on servers outside Europe…)!!!

Shock announcement by the German Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich: if you feel bugged, do not use American sites!