Digital sovereignty

Digital sovereignty is not declared in a press release, it is observed in the invoices: who hosts, who encrypts, who holds the key, who can pull the plug. This category starts from the premise that a country outsourcing its data, its models and its payments to foreign jurisdictions has already answered the question, even while it pretends to still be asking it. You will find the subject approached from below rather than from the conference panel: local AI and what it actually costs, self-hosting once the forge turns agentic, the zero-knowledge cryptography the administration wants no part of, and the quiet dispossession of things we believe we own, from a media server we no longer control to a savings plan that buys America without ever holding it. With the industrial question running underneath: while France sells its stakes and regulates its own decline, others are building the machines. Written by a practitioner who deploys this infrastructure for clients, in the conviction that sovereignty is a technical and industrial bottleneck long before it is a talking point.

Digital Surveillance in Switzerland: From the 2002 LSCPT to the 2025 VÜPF Revision [1/4]

Surveillance and civil liberties

In 2002, Switzerland adopted the LSCPT, a law meant to reconcile surveillance with respect for fundamental rights. Twenty years later, that balance has shattered: expanded surveillance powers, a Parliament routinely bypassed, and international pressure are redrawing the digital landscape. Behind the protective rhetoric, an insidious drift has taken hold, turning Switzerland from a vault for civil liberties into a weak link in global surveillance.

France’s 2025 Budget: Is Mortgaging the Future Still Acceptable?

Economy

France’s 2025 budget is shaping up to be unbalanced once again, deepening a colossal debt already past 3 trillion euros. With the government threatening to invoke article 49.3 to force the bill through, it is long past time to ask the obvious question: how can we accept a burden like this on future generations? Our political leaders need to answer for it and stop gambling with the country’s future.