Digital Sovereignty Observatory

Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard A 130-million-user payment system backed by 16 major banks just launched to challenge Visa/mastercard

Struggles for sovereign payments infrastructure: Europe is pushing to break its reliance on US-controlled payment giants like Visa & Mastercard, driving new pan-European systems (like Wero) and sparking debate about financial autonomy. europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/eur...

World’s success in LatAm is based on dubious grounds, says digital rights activist | Biometric Update The NGO says World's success is the result of a weak rule of law and sophisticated technological processes that allow its to avoid data protection rules.

📢 At the bleeding edge of #DigitalSovereignty struggles: critics are warning that the rapid uptake of "World" in Latin America—nearly 40M app users and 17M eyeballs verified!—is built on weak legal frameworks and loopholes that sidestep data protection. www.biometricupdate.com/202602/world...

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Iran’s Case Should Put an End to Illusions About Digital Sovereignty Iran’s case shows why digital sovereignty won’t solve internet shutdowns or unchecked private dominance over digital infrastructure, writes Azadeh Akbari.

A must-read from @azadehakbari.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/irans-case-s...

Bravo. The new Dutch coalition government's agreement is committing to digital sovereignty (Machine translation) Original in Dutch --> https://lnkd.in/dPS4QEx4 H/T @stollmeyer.bsky.social ... Bravo. The new Dutch coalition government's agreement is committing to digital sovereignty (Machine translation) Original in Dutch --> https://lnkd.in/dPS4QEx4 H/T @stollmeyer.bsky.social | 14 co...

Dutch coalition government statement on digital sovereignty: www.linkedin.com/posts/johnny...