No guarantee of sovereignty?
Wow. How’s your audit sign off if you need to control data residency for regulated purposes?
Microsoft admits no guarantee of sovereignty for UK policing data | Computer Weekly
Documents released under freedom of information rules show Microsoft’s lawyers admitted to Scottish policing bodies that the company cannot guarantee their sensitive law enforcement data will remain in the UK, despite long-standing public claims to the contrary.
Sebastian Klovig Skelton,
Did you ask?
Most of the Government runs on MS.
“While the correspondence has not been released in full, the disclosure reveals that data hosted in Microsoft’s hyperscale public cloud infrastructure is regularly transferred and processed overseas; that the data processing agreement in place for the DESC did not cover UK-specific data protection requirements; and that while the company has the ability to make technical changes to ensure data protection compliance, it is only making these changes for DESC partners and not other policing bodies because “no one else had asked”