{"id":21783,"date":"2026-01-30T17:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/is-it-time-to-break-up-with-us-tech-the-latest\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:37:37","slug":"is-it-time-to-break-up-with-us-tech-the-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/is-it-time-to-break-up-with-us-tech-the-latest\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it time to break up with US tech? \u2013 The Latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Donald Trump tearing up the world order, governments across Europe are having to confront the fact that most of the technology they rely on comes from US companies. French officials have taken a step this week to reduce their dependence on US digital infrastructure, announcing they have stopped using Zoom, the US-owned video meeting software, in favour of a French-made program. But how viable is this? And what are the risks? The Guardian\u2019s Michael Safi speaks to the tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker <strong>\u2013 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@todayinfocuspodcast\"><strong>watch on YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2026\/jan\/30\/is-it-time-to-break-up-with-us-tech-the-latest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/72706743f9953ce1da38ed9a9f4f9f31fd4c7035\/140_0_1714_1371\/master\/1714.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c8f2e97893bc2808d8086efcb17f8e27\" title=\"Is it time to break up with US tech? \u2013 The Latest\" \/>With Donald Trump tearing up the world order, governments across Europe are having to confront the fact that most of the technology they rely on comes from US companies. French officials have taken a step this week to reduce their dependence on US digital infrastructure, announcing they have stopped using Zoom, the US-owned video meeting software, in favour of a French-made program. But how viable is this? And what are the risks? The Guardian\u2019s Michael Safi speaks to the tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker \u2013 watch on YouTube Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Donald Trump tearing up the world order, governments across Europe are having to confront the fact that most of the technology they rely on comes from US companies. French officials have taken a step this week to reduce their dependence on US digital infrastructure, announcing they have stopped using Zoom, the US-owned video meeting &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/is-it-time-to-break-up-with-us-tech-the-latest\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is it time to break up with US tech? \u2013 The Latest<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}