A citizens’ initiative regarding Finland’s security of supply for critical digital services is progressing to parliament for consideration.

The initiative has garnered the 50,000 statements of support needed in order to be considerd by lawmakers.

According to the initiative’s backers, Finland needs to secure its critical digital services, including for elections, social security, taxation and others.

“Finland must ensure that the basic rights of citizens, democracy and national security are not dependent on actors who are under the purview of governments outside the EU/EEA,” their website states in English.

The digital sovereignty advocacy group noted that such services, and the critical information they involve, are increasingly being moved into the hands of “big corporations from outside the EU”.

“Critical public services and data must be kept in the hands of Finnish and European actors, on servers located in the EU/EEA and built on top of European or open software,” the group’s website stated.

Earlier this year, the justice ministry announced it had reversed a plan to store election data on cloud servers operated by US tech giant Amazon.

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