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Microsoft admits no guarantee of sovereignty for UK policing data
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.
These comments were made in an email from the DPO to the ICO in mid-December 2023, but the disclosure itself does not make it clear if the technical changes being implemented by Microsoft will include measures to ensure case-by-case permissions for international transfers. The minimum we ought to see is an immediate moratorium against expansion of the use of Microsoft Cloud for law enforcement processing whilst appropriate realignment and progressive reduction of the services can be undertaken Owen Sayers, independent security consultant and enterprise architect Our lawyers are just going to circle back this week and make sure this resolves all our concerns or whether we should buy the advanced data residency offering as well,” the DPO said, adding while the results are a “mixed bag”, getting Microsoft to agree to some changes is, “in my view, a huge win and opens the door for closer working in the future”.
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