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Microsoft's guarantees to data transfers welcomed by German watchdog

( November 20, 2020, 13:45 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Microsoft's guarantees that strengthen user rights in international data transfers have been welcomed by the data-protection authority of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The US tech giant said it will challenge every government request for public sector or enterprise customer data, which comes in response to EU data protection regulators' guidance following a European Court of Justice ruling on safeguards for cross-border data transfers. The German watchdogs have also been in talks about privacy updates to Microsoft's Office 365, and those talks are ongoing.Statement in German follows....

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