European Union: An Agent of Technological Backwardness in the Name of Sacred Bureaucracy

In July the world was shocked by the cyber blackout that stopped the world. Excessive European regulation, once again, may be responsible for what happened despite having gone unnoticed.

The July cyber blackout stopped practically all sectors of society worldwide. The world was shocked by the fact that a defective update of the Crowdstrike company led to almost all Microsoft systems having collapsed.

For those who are more familiar with the technological world and the European-wide regulations they have faced, this event can easily be connected with the European guidelines to which companies are subject. In the present case, it is possible that there is an association between the fatal failure of systems worldwide and DMA.

Microsoft was objective in indicating that European regulation is to blame for what happened by requiring third-party companies such as Crowdstrike to have access to the same systems as Microsoft itself, which, if they are not properly taken care of, leads to catastrophic failures, thus asking for freedom of action.

The DMA – Digital Markets Act obliges technology companies to allow third parties access to their systems under the argument of promoting fair competition. There are several serious flaws that can be considered on this regulation from the point of view of security, economic, but also from a moral perspective.