Microsoft, Ericsson lead global tech alliance for digital trust

FILE PHOTO: Visitors look at a heat pump that awaits assembling inside utility Fortum’s heat pump room that is under construction next to Microsoft’s new data centre site in Kirkkonummi, Finland March 7, 2025. REUTERS/Anne Kauranen/File Photo

STOCKHOLM, Feb 13 - A group ⁠of 15 companies, led by Microsoft and Ericsson, launched on Friday the “Trusted ⁠Tech Alliance,” built around five principles to safely use technology regardless of where ‌it is developed.

The initiative is the first concerted move by a group of global companies to address concerns about where data is stored as the increasingly isolationist United States, under U.S. President Donald Trump, ​has sharpened Europe's and Asia's focus on "digital sovereignty".