European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan
Nearly three-quarters worry Washington could cut access, yet fewer than half regularly test their fallback
Nearly three-quarters of businesses surveyed in the UK, France, and Germany fear Washington could abruptly cut their access to the US tech platforms on which they depend.
The finding comes from a survey of 1,500 businesses in the three countries conducted by Proton, the Swiss company behind Proton Mail, which was founded by scientists who met at CERN.
Businesses have long relied on companies such as Microsoft and Google for email and productivity software. Moving those tools into the cloud has also given providers a central switch with which to withdraw access.
Geopolitical tensions between European countries and the Trump administration have brought concerns about such a possibility to the fore, especially after the US government issued an export control directive preventing any non-US citizen from accessing some Anthropic AI models.
A previous study...
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