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apple blocks disk access but most ai agents are cloud-side, they never touch your disk in the first place

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hourly rebuilding a contact graph of everyone you know. and it runs every hour whether you asked or not

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your personal data goes in, the agent learns from it, and what's 'your data' gets messy fast. ccpa wasn't designed for that loop

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

a year trying to pull efficiency data out of the eu's own data center buildout. aarhus exists for when agencies don't volunteer environmental numbers

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the hardware cost to run anything decent locally kills this for most smbs. a 70b model needs more than a macbook

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

trump v slaughter hands the president direct control over us data protection bodies. any eu data going through a us processor just got way harder to defend

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

arthur not wrong about openai and anthropic using safety talk as cover but mistral's checkout only takes visa and mastercard, no sepa. dependency cuts both ways

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

mcp connector is the real unlock I think, everything else is just another webui people won't try

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

a drawn investigation about mistral with every panel featuring a different cat breed is such a fun format. the cheshire cat for the shady parts, perfect

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

tested a bunch of eu ai chats earlier this year and most had improved enough to compete with chatgpt. an austrian founder getting heute airtime for it is a good sign the story is spreading

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nah the problem isn't microsoft being good at sales, it's that the alternatives don't have the same certification and liability coverage. without that governments can't even consider them

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id requirement is a tough sell for mass adoption but it's the only way to back up the no-bot claim. rest depends on who processes that id data

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encore cinq recours in one batch is rough, the sovereignty push always hits this wall where nobody wants the infrastructure near them

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

tried mistral's lechat and dento.chat recently and honestly both are past the good enough stage, rank right along chatgpt and claude for most day to day stuff

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sovereignty in the same breath as competition and security, most proposals still bury it under privacy somewhere. good to see it out front

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oss compliance paperwork is what kills it for governments, you need a dpa and support sla for every vendor and most projects have neither

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

three approaches and none of them cover what fable 5 proved, any vendor under us export control can get cut off regardless of where the servers sit

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

finding the good ones takes effort tbh, tried some eu ai chats last year and most were rough. the ones that improved since then earned another look though

DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

funny timing on this one, chatgpt got designated a very large search engine under the DSA in august, so vetted researcher access to usage data comes with that by january whether the labs volunteer anything or not

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agreed on upload and outputs, scraping is the leg that never gets punished, legit interest got stretched to cover the whole open web and enforcement mostly never shows up, clearview the big exception and even that took years

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finally a benchmark on hardware people own. an idle 4060ti box still pulls around 50 watts between prompts, which never seems to make it into the energy math of these local llm takes

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own your dependencies hits hardest for me, used to review every pr by hand at my old job and ai output made that pile bigger not smaller, the audit work just moved instead of going away. also the offline one, planes are prompt writing time now

DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fair warning on the sentry hype, that 'only path to the model' thing means bluefield-4 dpus, the whole hardware isolation story assumes nvidia silicon in every node. on a plain cloud vm youre back to software policy and hoping the agent behaves

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'strongest adherence to the gdpr' is doing a lot of work there, the record fine in gdpr history is still metas 1.2 billion euro from the irish dpc, at that scale adherence mostly means the biggest legal team

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

jolla going from the tablet saga where backers lost money to a phone that ships, and uitverkocht already two months after delivery started. kind of a redemption arc, good sign for eu hardware imo

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

estonia went first on the verifiable limits idea btw, announced digital identity codes for ai agents in june so an agent can be capped at like view only or payments under a set amount. valitsus.ee has the writeup

DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

you have to apply and submit a proposal to get into that residency btw, very open and cooperative of them. torment nexus stays undefeated

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

designed to prevent it sure, but the medicare breach was in june and all that came of it so far is a statement from albanese

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

gdpr art 33 already made companies report breaches in 72h and they still find ways to sit on them for weeks, another notification clock wont fix that, enforcement is what's missing

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

nah the open dangerous closed safe thing got settled the other way this year, fable 5 got yanked from non us citizens by export control in june, closed weights turned out to be the ones with a kill switch

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

eh, fair to mock the linkedin pile-on, but sovereign hosting has real substance after the fable 5 shutdown this summer, access can vanish on one export order, running open weights yourself is a legit want

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the commissions dsa findings against the porn sites in march were literally about the i'm 18 click-through not counting as age assurance, and there's been an eu age verification app in the works since april, same hole it's meant to plug

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the paper goes one step further btw, 69.6% of fixes on agent merges come from the same agent that opened the pr, so the cleanup loop is self serve, merged aint merged, and its mostly the bots redoing their own work

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

good catch on n8n being fair code btw, the sustainable use licence blocks white labelling and hosted reselling without an enterprise deal, that trips up the self host crowd right when they wanna ship something

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DentroChat @dentrochat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

labels are only the visible kind for deepfakes and ai written public interest news text tho, everything else just gets a machine readable marker in the file, gone the moment someone screenshots or re-uploads it

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saints and slop made me laugh, the study counts usage not output quality tho, and dublin being the EMEA office for half of silicon valley does the heavy lifting

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canada had its own version in the works, the aida bill went down when parliament was prorogued and nothing has replaced it since

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Normally it's not difficult to see whether a service is truly European. Ever used an app that screams European, then found out it isn't? Full guide: dentro.chat/blog/how-to-check-if-a-…

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Can't find the subprocessors? Email the company. Last resort, but the most current answer. That's how we learned PayNL backs up to Google Cloud. And sometimes the page is outdated: GreenPT runs their mobile apps on RevenueCat (US) and mentions it nowhere. We found it in the app's APK.

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How to figure this out for a new service: 1. The headquarters usually sits in the terms and conditions or privacy policy, linked in the footer. 2. The subprocessor list is often linked there too. 3. An AI agent is good at digging out parent companies. We use DentroChat for this every day.

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Best realistic case these days: core product and main data on EU-owned machines, auxiliary tools like payment or CRM on US services. Scaleway, Clever Cloud, BunnyCDN and Lettermint work this way.

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Second most important: the subprocessors. If the whole product runs on Google Cloud, like Mollie, the Cloud Act still reaches the data. Migrating to a European cloud such as Scaleway or Clever Cloud fixes that.

That means: to be sovereign, the most important step is using products with HQs in Europe. It's not a European product if it's owned by Microsoft (e.g. LinkedIn), Salesforce (e.g. Slack), or Google (e.g. YouTube), even when they have subsidiaries in Europe.

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Also, it can happen at any moment, that some president decides to cut off all of Europe from their IT infrastructure...

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Most important: where the headquarters and the parent company sit. If it's the US, the company falls under the US Cloud Act. This allows US agencies to demand data of this company, even if the data is located in Europe.

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