A new Proton study found that as many as 74% of European business leaders are afraid of a US kill switch cutting off their technology access. We must take action to reserve our data and our market primarily for European tech to scale it and build our own frontier AI.” But what is a technological kill switch, and what are EU lawmakers so concerned about? Considering the deep dependence of European businesses on US tech platforms, a kill switch represents an existential risk. Read our multi-country survey asking founders, CEOs, and IT directors about the effects of tech disruption on European businesses.