{"id":1000321,"date":"2026-04-01T07:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000321"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:24:56","slug":"eu-digital-chief-warns-of-weaponised-reliance-on-foreign-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/eu-digital-chief-warns-of-weaponised-reliance-on-foreign-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"EU digital chief warns of &#8216;weaponised&#8217; reliance on foreign tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s reliance on foreign tech firms could be &#8220;weaponised against us&#8221;, the EU&#8217;s digital chief Henna Virkkunen warned Tuesday, urging more use of homegrown services for critical data. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are really living in a world where that kind of very strong dependencies&#8230; can be also weaponised against us,&#8221; Virkkunen told reporters in French city Lille.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s reliance on foreign tech firms could be &#8220;weaponised against us&#8221;, the EU&#8217;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. &#8220;We are really living in a world where that kind of very strong dependencies&#8230; can be also weaponised against us,&#8221; Virkkunen told reporters in French city Lille.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}