4 ms·
Microsoft is still an American company if the cloud servers are in Canada. Can't the US government tell Microsoft to hand over the data (which MS can fetch remo
by dmortin 7y ago
Microsoft is still an American company if the cloud servers are in Canada. Can't the US government tell Microsoft to hand over the data (which MS can fetch remotely) if it needs it for some terrorist investigation?
- filoleg 7y agoI believe you are correct, and that's why Azure has a dedicated German cloud with all the data residing in Germany and managed by a German data trustee, which should prevent US government from being able to tell Microsoft to do anything with that data[0]. If Canada happens to have a dedicated cloud region with similar policies, they should be in the clear. 0. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/germany/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/germ...
- robocat 7y agoFrom the article: "A year later, Microsoft closed its German cloud datacenter, and schools migrated their accounts to the European cloud. Now, the HBDI states that the European cloud may offer access to US authorities; with no way for the German government to monitor such access"
- gmueckl 7y agoThis is because the old data center was run independently of MS while they own the new ones directly. Thus, the old one was legally and technically isolated from MS and any wish they might have had to access that data.
- notimetorelax 7y agoYes, this is the concern. Previously this was not the case with the German data center as it was not operated by Microsoft. But now that it’s closed...