Microsoft offers to store EU customers' data locally to appease regulatory concerns
By Matthew Newman ( May 6, 2021, 17:03 GMT | Insight) -- Microsoft has said that it will allow EU customers of its cloud services to keep data within the bloc, as the bloc's privacy regulators start to rule against trans-Atlantic data transfers following an EU court ruling last year on the legality of these flows. Microsoft’s new offer — the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud — follows companies’ concerns with how to comply with the "Schrems II" ruling that voided the EU-US Privacy Shield.Microsoft has said that it will allow EU customers of its cloud services to keep data within the bloc, as the bloc's privacy regulators start to rule against trans-Atlantic data transfers following an EU court ruling last year on the legality of these flows....
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