Andreas Baur
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Andreas Baur
@andbaur.bsky.social
Researcher at the IZEW, University of Tübingen; PhD candidate at the AISSR, University of Amsterdam.
Infrastructures × Politics – privacy, security, ethics.
https://andbaur.net
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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🚨New publication: ’European ambitions captured by American clouds?’ looks at #GaiaX and the push for European digital sovereignty – despite reliance on US cloud giants.

Read more on the challenges of building sovereignty into cloud infrastructures @icsjournal.bsky.social
#DigitalSovereignty #Cloud
European ambitions captured by American clouds: digital sovereignty through Gaia-X?
The Gaia-X initiative was launched to bolster European digital sovereignty. It aims to contest the dominance of non-European cloud providers since cloud infrastructures are core resources for socie...
doi.org
June 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Reposted by Andreas Baur
Angesicht der großen Anfangseuphorie ist es gut, dass @luca.run in diesem 🧵 die Geschichte von Bluesky und Ideologie von Jack Dorsey in Erinnerung ruft. / via @andbaur.bsky.social
Hat schon jemand eine kurze Geschichte von Bluesky geschrieben? Also wie Jack es als Twitter CEO gestartet hat, damit es ein libertäres Utopiaprotokoll entwickelt. Twitter es finanzierte. Damals als gemeinnützig LLC. Nach der Übernahme durch Musk Geldhahn zu. Jetzt Seedinvestoren und C Corp.
October 3, 2023 at 8:52 AM