> Data hosted in Germany won't be accessible to Microsoft US nor the US government. How do we know? Is Microsoft planning to release the source code? > If th

> Data hosted in Germany won't be accessible to Microsoft US nor the US government. How do we know? Is Microsoft planning to release the source code? > If the German government can access that data so what? Do you really expect to escape from that? Yes. I agree with your general point that this is a step forward, but I am also wary that people will perceive this as solving the massive problems we have with securing ourselves from pervasive surveillance. Keep in mind this is basically just a promise from Microsoft that they'll keep your data in your country, so it's only as good as Microsoft's willingness and ability to keep that promise. If you trust it it's a step forward, but Microsoft is far from being worthy of that trust, so it's a very small step forward, so small it's barely worth talking about.