Around Europe, governments and institutions are seeking to reduce their use of digital services from U.S. Big Tech companies and turning to domestic or free alternatives. The push for “digital sovereignty” is gaining attention as the Trump administration strikes an increasingly belligerent posture toward the continent, highlighted by recent tensions over Greenland that intensified fears that Silicon Valley giants could be compelled to cut off access.
This isn’t that though. This is the state choosing to use different software themselves. They aren’t forcing them on anyone else.
So when I go to my French court hearing this afternoon, I am not required to use their WebRTC implementation?
How about when I need to assemble our council about an urgent issue regarding the state, do we just mumble to each other like in the olden days?
When you go to court in person you enter a state sponsored building.
When conversing with your lawyer you’re free to use whatever means if preferred to you.
I am in Japan. How exactly do I “appear in court”?
But def. saw you ignore the counsil e-meetings.
My point was that the court hearing is, by design, in an open forum hosted by the state. There is no supposed privacy to defend from the state. You being in a room (whether physical or digital) that is state controlled is not an issue there.
Your communications with your counsel should be private, though and that method of communication should not be breachable by the state.
So when you complain about using their facilities you are only correct in the latter sense.