Where your data sits matters far less than whose laws it answers to
Papers, scorecard reviews and analysis on digital sovereignty, AI and cyber security. Written by Adrian Hollister, thirty years in technology. Free to quote, republish and translate.
The papers
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The Sovereign Machine
A blueprint for the AI-enabled IT department: sovereignty as architecture, ethics as controls, and the workforce question answered as design.
A UK Digital Sovereignty Act
A proposal for the statute beneath Britain's data laws: ending silent dependence on foreign-controlled digital infrastructure.
Your AI Answers to a Foreign Government
What two governments have already done with the power that AI dependency gives them, what European law does and does not change, and what Europe has built to answer it.
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The scorecard
The method and the reviews →AltLibre reviews the technology Europe depends on, and scores what the large analyst houses cannot: what the vendor owes the European citizen, and whether the continent can afford the relationship for the decade ahead. Eight public criteria, a published rubric, and a right of reply for every vendor named.
Recent output
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AltLibre takes a small amount of advisory work alongside the research: jurisdiction and dependency reviews, second opinions, procurement and exit strategy, board briefings. No vendor commissions, and clients do not influence what is published.
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