Joana Cotar
State-financed
Digital Cloud
AfD Kompakt, August
10, 2019
[Joana Cotar is an Alternative für
Deutschland Bundestag member from the central German state of Hessen. A
communications manager, she is the AfD’s Bundestag spokesman for digital policy
and since 2016 has been the AfD’s social media manager.]
The quite real
problem of deficient data security of cloud servers such as Amazon, Google or
Microsoft is once more addressed by the Federal government with a poorly
thought out snap response. Naturally it is problematic that these servers have
been obligated, on account of the American cloud regulations, to guarantee to
U.S. officials wide-ranging access to their data – even when these have not
been stored in the USA. The building of a state-financed cloud presents however
an unnecessary interference in the competition and, with additional
subventions, burdens on the purse of the citizen.
Overflowing
bureaucracy, high taxation and high energy costs for computer centers rob cloud
providers of their business potential. These roots of many digital policy
problems must be addressed if Germany in the IT area is not to lose ever more
economic initiative and political sovereignty.
[Translated by Todd
Martin]
