A new policy piece by Stefka Schmid has been published by the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.
Summary
Big Tech companies provide cloud computing services to various actors worldwide, including Frontex, thereby shaping the governance of the EU’s external borders. Given that border control constitutes a safety-critical environment, the implementation of cloud computing should be assessed through its specific context of use, including operational design goals as well as robust data protection and management regulations that safeguard the rights of people on the move. The EU should reduce its reliance on hyperscaler cloud services by adopting EU-owned cloud solutions for border control and other security-critical contexts.
Read the policy piece with a focus on cloud infrastructure in border control here.
Read a related contribution by Stefka to a collective policy brief on the “geopolitics of AI” (published by USD’s Center for War Studies) here.