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Carniaux did say that the situation had never arisen.
And I say that dude does not know it.
When it happens, then he has no way of knowing it, and now they will make sure about him personally that he will never get any way of knowing it.
OK, who actually did think that data in Microsofts hands were safe from US meddling?
Any bit of data sent to an American server has to be considered compromized.
This is not only about data transmitted to the US, but also about data located in the EU - but still under the Microsoft umbrella, a US company.
Even if you know or strongly suspect something it is important to confirm and have it on record.
Also, many people don’t have the technical or judicial expertise. It’s obvious to you because you already know it.
This admission and the following press coverage was likely a significant revelation and wake-up call for a lot of people.
Better yet, who thinks any part of Microsoft gives a flying fuck about the concept of safety in any capacity?
Safety is part of the business strategy because it has to be, at least to the degree of public image and in business risk assessment.
No gov should allow their data in Microsoft hands simply based on this…
Ooops too late
No they can’t, they never could, and it’s way way overdue for EU to finally wake up to the reality that all US owned cloud services are factually illegal for any European (EU) authority to use, from kindergartens to courts and everything in between.
It is also illegal for any private company operating in EU to hold any user/customer/personnel data on servers owned by American companies.I’ve been saying this for more than 8 years now! Because this became apparent already under Obama, that the US government can demand, any data in any country held by any American company, to be handed over. Furthermore they can do this in secret under anti terror laws. And the companies affected are not allowed to mention anything to anybody, under regulation of steep penalties.
This was what Obama claimed was a balanced approach!
And the Republicans are worse!
And now it is very apparent that the checks and balances don’t even work. The current American administration will do whatever they want, and worry about legality later. And threaten any opposition with secrecy under national security and anti terror laws.
Keep way way away from any American form of server/digital service and especially cloud services.
And also keep away from American telemetry. Which all ought to be illegal in EU.What did you think the point of the “cloud” was?
It wasn’t to make computing better.
That’s the story of humanity. It’s always alarmist BS until some higher up gets personally burned and it’s suddenly red alert.
More reasons for the EU to build their own data centers.
And demand telemetry removed from all US services and products.
As it is now it’s illegal to collect on children, but it should simply be completely illegal.Or even better - stop using US services all together.
It’s the hardest one to do, but it’s way more effective. They will shit on the rules anyway.
They’re working on it, thankfully. Dozens of countries are replacing Windows, Office, etc.
Ofc they can’t google, meta and Microsoft are the three pillars of US intelligence gathering network.
Isn’t there some kind of sketchy corporate structure they could use to skirt this if they actually cared about data sovereignty?
“Sorry Feds, this data is actually held by Microsoft EU and not Microsoft”.
Or do they only do that sketchy shit for dodging taxes and protecting people’s data is a bridge too far?
Only option is to not use Americans products and services.
America cannot be trusted. At the end of the day the current US administration is a mere symptom, not the root cause.
As another poster mentioned, there is far more similarity between Obama and Trump than most Americans would like to admit.
No disrespect to sane Americans. It is a disaster for global democracy that America has de facto transitioned to a chauvinistic oligarchy.
Can’t or won’t?
The won’t is irrelevant because they can’t, the American anti terror law, gives major rights to any American security agency and even ordinary police to demand data. The only hurdle is a court order. And the agencies have their own anti terror courts that ONLY work with the agencies and only get their info from same agencies, because they are supposed to work in secret it can’t be taken outside.
Faced with such a court order, the company is forced to keep it secret too, and they cannot defend themselves, except to the secret court that works closely with the agencies!And it’s the same for Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and any other American company. Microsoft has just admitted it, which isn’t even necessary since this info was revealed by Edward Snowden just over a decade ago.
And Obama claimed USA had found a fair balance, the fair balance being that the government services can do just about whatever the fuck they want.
Microsoft even admitting this is probably bordering on being illegal, as this is supposed to be a secret, although anyone interested can look it up.
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Realities like this one are forcing entire nations to move to FOSS, more accountable systems, etc., which is a good thing for many of us, but bad for those who are in jurisdictions that they just can’t get enough of Microsoft et al.
A far journey ahead but at least we’re getting there!
