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Hideez: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Hideez is a passwordless identity product for workforce access. It combines multi-factor authentication, single sign-on and access management with hardware keys and a mobile authenticator, and can lock and unlock workstations. The product is offered as a cloud service, in a private cloud, or self-hosted on the customer's own servers through Hideez Server.

The privacy policy names Delaware, United States, as the company's registered location, and the company is a US company subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act, for data it controls. The policy states that the cloud service runs on Microsoft Azure and complies with ISO 27001, SOC 2 and PCI-DSS standards, but it does not name the regions used. Self-hosting Hideez Server keeps the data environment under the organisation's own control. The cloud option depends on a US-headquartered provider and an unnamed Azure location.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUSVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryIdentity
TypeProduct
Websitehideez.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Hideez

The European alternatives to Hideez come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Hideez

Hideez is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Hideez hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Hideez is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Hideez together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Hideez?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Hideez include Adnovum, Airlock and Auðkenni. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Hideez?

Our list of EU alternatives to Hideez is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Hideez GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Hideez is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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