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Microsoft expands EU data localization efforts to cover system logs
Microsoft has ticked off the second phase of its rollout of a data localization offering in the European Union. The latest deployment to the "EU Data Microsoft has ticked off the second phase of its rollout of a data localization offering in the European Union.
The regulatory risk for the tech giant became especially acute when a data transfer agreement between the bloc and the US was struck down by the Court of Justice, in July 2020. At issue: The incompatibility of sweeping US surveillance powers and EU privacy laws — a legal clash that’s twice tossed US-based cloud services with European customers into an uncertain limbo. And will, apparently, continue to do even after the planned final (third) phase of the rollout (slated for December 31, 2024) — since Microsoft has not proposed a total localization of data and no processing elsewhere.
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