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1213898 2011-07-01 18:26:00 Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data


LONDON — At the Office 365 launch, Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK, gave the first admission that cloud data — regardless of where it is in the world — is not protected against the USA PATRIOT Act.

It was honestly music to my ears. After a year of researching the Patriot Act’s breadth and ability to access data held within protected EU boundaries, Microsoft finally and openly admitted it.

The question put forward:

“Can Microsoft guarantee that EU-stored data, held in EU based datacenters, will not leave the European Economic Area under any circumstances — even under a request by the Patriot Act?”

Answer here: www.zdnet.com
SurferJoe46 (51)
1213899 2011-07-01 21:54:00 Another reason to avoid could computing Gobe1 (6290)
1213900 2011-07-02 04:27:00 Yeah I wouldn't put anything sensitive on a cloud service at all Agent_24 (57)
1213901 2011-07-03 09:45:00 What's the bet the next iteration of scandals involves govt department staff ignorantly saving sensitive info to the cloud... naturally to be accessed and distributed to everyone that was never supposed to see it. Paul.Cov (425)
1213902 2011-07-03 22:27:00 It is more than likely a good idea to have valuable data backed in a place away from your computer. If your computer is stolen or destroyed you can then retrieve your data.

I am at the same time weary of storing my data on line because I feel that it is more vulnerable.
Bobh (5192)
1213903 2011-07-03 23:34:00 Another reason to avoid could computing

And yet you're on PressF1... :p
pcuser42 (130)
1213904 2011-07-04 00:34:00 What's the bet the next iteration of scandals involves govt department staff ignorantly saving sensitive info to the cloud... naturally to be accessed and distributed to everyone that was never supposed to see it.
Shame on you!
Government staff doing things ignorantly is not a scandal, it is tradition.
R2x1 (4628)
1213905 2011-07-04 00:40:00 Shame on you!
Government staff doing things ignorantly is not a scandal, it is tradition.

lol'd :thumbs:
Empathy. (16382)
1213906 2011-07-04 02:35:00 And yet you're on PressF1... :p

hahah bad typo eh
Gobe1 (6290)
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