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I 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 s

I 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 ago
From 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 ago
  This 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.