I built a database in France because the Cloud Act makes EU data sovereignty impossible
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Building a database in France due to Cloud Act; data sovereignty infrastructure case.
Summary
US surveillance laws (PATRIOT Act, Cloud Act, FISA 702) grant extraterritorial data access, conflicting with GDPR Article 48 and forcing EU developers in regulated sectors (healthtech, AI/ML RAG) to adopt sovereign architectures. VelesDB exemplifies this shift as an EU-hosted database designed for GDPR, Data Act, and AI Act compliance without US cloud dependencies.