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“A Major Victory for Sovereignty”: Polytechnique Suspends Its Contract with Microsoft
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The École polytechnique suspends its project of migration to Microsoft 365. Faced with the pressure of associations, elected representatives and its own researchers, the prestigious school for the moment renounces a project deemed contrary to the law and dangerous for the sovereignty of data of French research.
A battle, but not a war: X postpones its contract with American giant Microsoft after seven months of controversy. This news has been applauded by defenders of free software and French and European digital sovereignty.
The École Polytechnique suspends its migration to Microsoft 365. The Conseil National du Logiciel Libre (CNLL), which was firmly opposed to this project, welcomes this decision as a major victory for the sovereignty of French research and respect for the law.Given the seriousness of the risks posed by this project — exposure to American extraterritorial law (Cloud Act, FISA) and threats to the secrecy of research and business — and given the fla…
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