Is that still valid even though the European company is controlled by Microsoft? As I understand, the agreement they have in Germany basically hands over all control to Telekom, basically like a franchise model. As long as Microsoft Europe still controls access to the data, can't they be forced by Microsoft US to reveal the data? As I understood, that was the reason why OVH hesitated for so long to build US data centres and then used a separate company for it (not sure if they went through with that plan).
Not a lawyer so pure speculation but would be interested if anyone has details.
As far as I know we’re perfectly safe within the setup we run. I haven’t been involved in the legal bits beyond asking for permission to put citizen data in the cloud and being granted permission by our government and the EU.
Maybe this verdict changes things, but if it did, I’m fairly confident that I would’ve known by now considering it’s a sensitive issue.
We do have extensive exit plans at hand, for such an event. Plans that are really just us burning money because the US surveillance state can’t get it’s damn act together.
Microsoft German datacenters are unaffected yeah. They're not connected in any way to the upstream MS Azure network, the only way for MS to control them would be through an infected security update, which they'll never do.
Not a lawyer so pure speculation but would be interested if anyone has details.