Seems Merz doesn't understand the difference between data-residency and data-sovereignty. Nor does he understand the scope of Trump's 2017 CLOUD act, which expressly states any data in any datacenter that is the property of a US corporation, regardless of where it physically resides in the world, can ultimately be accessed by US statecraft, on demand. There is no 'data sovereignty' with GAFAM. Ever. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Merz-Google-Cloud-is-sovereign-enough-for-intelligence-agencies-11508564.html 1/2