EU digital chief warns of ‘weaponised’ reliance on foreign tech
Europe’s reliance on foreign tech firms could be “weaponised against us”, the EU’s digital chief Henna Virkkunen warned Tuesday, urging more use of homegrown services for critical data.
Her comments come as Brussels prepares a potential ban of some Chinese telecoms equipment from EU territory and comes under pressure from Washington to ease digital regulations.
“We are really living in a world where that kind of very strong dependencies… can be also weaponised against us,” Virkkunen told reporters in French city Lille.
