Sorry this is news folks? Really? See this from 2011/12 from http://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2012/01/microsoft-office-365-for-lawyers/ http://www.infolaw.c

Sorry this is news folks? Really? See this from 2011/12 from http://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2012/01/microsoft-office-365-for-lawyers/ http://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2012/01/microsoft-office... However, the Patriot Act, introduced to protect US national security, can require that any US company (wherever data is held) must disclose data on demand to the US Government without the knowledge of the owner of the data, which is contrary to the UK Data Protection Act. Microsoft has been up-front in acknowledging that they cannot give that guarantee and this applies to data held in all their hosted solutions. As a result, in December 2011, BAE ditched plans to adopt Office365 because Microsoft could not guarantee the company’s data would not leave Europe, in spite of operating a data centre in Dublin.