Knut Michael Haugland
Founder building European cloud infrastructure with a focus on control, transparency and open systems.
About
I build cloud infrastructure in Europe, with a focus on control, transparency and long-term reliability.
I am the founder of WAYSCloud, where we design and operate infrastructure that remains within European jurisdictions and under customer control — without dependency on external platforms.
I care deeply about how infrastructure is built, who controls it, and what assumptions it is based on. For me, this is not just technical — it is about trust, responsibility and long-term sovereignty.
My work sits at the intersection of cloud architecture, operational security and digital sovereignty. I focus on how systems behave under real-world conditions, not just how they are designed on paper.
I believe Europe needs infrastructure that is transparent, predictable and independent — not only for compliance, but for resilience and long-term trust.
I write about the decisions, trade-offs and structures behind building and operating infrastructure at scale — based on practical experience, not theory.
I write primarily in English, with a focus on European infrastructure, sovereignty and systems.
Latest writing
- Two pipelines, one drift — how Norway is engineering the warrant out of digital intrusion The Norwegian Tax Administration copies whole phones in tax audits. DSOP-Politi pulls ten years of bank data in seconds. Neither pipeline has a court in the loop at the intrusion.
- Telia's typo explanation raises bigger telecom-trust questions Telia now explains the location-data exposure as a configuration error: P-Access-Network-Info became P-Access-Network-Id. That may explain the mechanism. It does not explain why sensitive cell-level context was allowed to cross a telecom trust boundary.
- The telecom trust-boundary problem is now mainstream LinkedIn News highlighted my telecom privacy post as an Editors’ Pick. The bigger story is why Citizen Lab, TechCrunch, Ofcom and the Telia Norway case all point to the same infrastructure trust-boundary problem.