: Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them

Microsoft is responding to mounting “geopolitical and trade volatility” between the US administration and governments in Europe by pledging privacy safeguards for customers worried about using American hyperscalers, and vowing to fight the US government in court to protect Euro customers’ data if needed.

Under Trump 2.0, some Europeans fear that storing their data in the bit barns of Microsoft, Google and AWS is no longer safe, a concern voiced to The Register in late February by Bert Hubert, a part time technical advisor to the Dutch Electoral Council.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•23 hours ago

    If the US doesnt play by the rules the EU will just turn up the heat and start cutting off US tech companies from the EU internet by force. As soon as some EU countries start implementing harsher punishments for US companies, other EU countries will start joining. It can avalanche pretty quickly and its already starting to happen.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•21 hours ago

      I’ve been wondering if the US might isolate themselves from the world wide internet.

      The idea of part of the world blocking the US might be more likely.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•22 hours ago

      How would EU detect that US companies hand over information to American law enforcement contrary to the agreement?
      The problem is that because of the agreement EU countries could pretend like it isn’t a real problem, despite by American law it obviously is. Now EU is waking up to reality, but we still can’t prove it’s happening.