Members of France's government announced a plan to allow sensitive data storage in Google and Microsoft clouds under a data localization model, Reuters reports. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and Minister for Digital Affairs Cédric O outlined how cloud services from the U.S. Big Tech companies would be permissible if they were licensed to French companies. "We ... hope that other Franco-American alliances will emerge in this area, which will allow us to have the best technology while guaranteeing the independence of French data," O said.