And I'm assuming anywhere else that microsoft operates (the entire world) would be the same too, no? I don't know why this rhetoric would be specific to the EU.
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Well some of those countries are part of 5 eyes, 9 eyes, and 14 eyes
we'd just cancel their trademark then
It was the same for Biden, why did no-one care then?
Yeah I wondered the same thing. That cloud act went into effect in 2018. Haven't seen anyone try to change it in the last 6 years
There's no telling if that hasn't already happened. Europe needs to drop Microsoft ASAP.
Microsoft said this, but this likely applies to AWS and GCP too.
Check out Hetzner, a German cloud provider. Established, reliable and way cheaper than AWS.
I know migrating is nigh impossible for most large apps, but creating a new one on AWS/GCP/Azure is so shortsighted.
More people need to know about alternatives.
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~~Europe~~ Everyone needs to drop Microsoft ASAP
FTFY
Canada, too. For the last two years, Canada has entrusted sensitive statistical information to Microsoft. We should be treating MS with the same skepticism we currently reserve for Huawei.
Germany and a handful of other countries have been moving to Linux over the past decade. Betting the rate of uptick speeds up now though.
I thought gdpr forced companies to store data securely in the eu. Are they saying they'll transfer that data to the us to give Trump access, cause that's a gdpr violation and should result in fines and eventual removal from the eu market.
There are provisions. I don't remember the exact name of it, but basically, the US says "yah, these business are legit ok, you see?" and the EU is like "oh, ok, deal". This includes the big providers and a handful of others, obviously.
And yes, it is a farce.
It's still on their servers. They just give government access to data.
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Does this also mean Microsoft would allow China to spy on the US if asked?
My assumption for many years now has been that the answer to any question involving MS giving access to your data is "yes."
How is that news? The CLOUD Act is law since 2018.
I'm guessing the admits part and of course Trump is the current (quite jutified) bogeyman.
Continuing to do business in the US after the CLOUD act already implied enough.
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suck my arch btw
well...... there is self-hosting too
As an EU citizen, I don't find the idea of the US government having access to my data nearly as frightening as the idea of my own government getting into my accounts.
What if the US decided to share info about the data on your accounts to your government?
isn't this part of how the [insert number] eyes works?
Pretty much, basically the country’s involved will share loads of intelligence with each other and data will be a big thing they’ll share.