Finnish spy chief warns Europe may never break free from foreign tech

Tamara Ceaikovski

TALLINN — Europe will likely never be fully independent from foreign technologies because it relies too much on software from the United States and hardware from China, Juha Martelius, the head of Finland’s Security and Intelligence Service, told POLITICO. “I'm afraid we're a body infiltrated by two types of cancer,” he said, referring to the European continent, on the sidelines of the Lennart Meri Security Conference in Tallinn on Saturday. "It is probably impossible to operate, but you can