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Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence
(www.theregister.com)
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Wrong, MS EU have to comply EU GDPR laws, yes or yes. They have learned it after several high fines, like also Facebook and Google, even X planned in the past to stop the service in the EU because of this. They can't send userdata to third countries without the express consent of the user. Privacy in the EU is an human right protected by law. MS is scared with a reason.
If you want to be pedantic about it - if the NSA, or any such agency demands to place a [backdoor of any sort] in an American company's datacenter, they have to comply.
So, no, they (meta, Google, etc) won't be handing over the data knowingly. But those devices placed there for sure aren't running Minecraft servers.
Also in the EU, security agencies and the police can have access to individual accounts, but only in the case of an criminal investigation and only with an court order. Even very privacy oriented services and apps have to give access to the data they have, in this case. But this, if these data are encrypted, there is few what the authorities can do, then they have to contact the user directly to obtain the encryption key, or trying through weeks to crack it. But all this has nothing to do with privacy, it's not the same as sharing freely user datas to third party advertising companies, like it is possible in the US, in the EU it's only alowed in a very limited way to share statistical, anonymised and tech data.
Or getting a house search warrant.
Only if that data centre is located on US soil.
...or if any critical part of the data processing happens in US soil...
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