> the eu employees whe are the only ones with the passwords to get it are legally required to refuse Can EU ever be sure Microsoft's mothership didn't backdoor

> the eu employees whe are the only ones with the passwords to get it are legally required to refuse Can EU ever be sure Microsoft's mothership didn't backdoor the systems in use by the EU child-org, to bypass the local crew completely, just in case? Short of reimplementing everything in parallel from scratch, I doubt headquarters can really be completely locked out and be unable to get overseas data if they are hard pressed to do so by USG.