Microsoft EU Data Boundary dubbed ‘smoke and mirrors’
Microsoft has committed to storing and processing all of its European Union (EU) customer data within the bloc by creating an “EU Data Boundary”, but data protection experts have criticised the move as a tacit admission that data is being routinely processed elsewhere.
However, Alexander Hanff, founder of Think Privacy and a lead privacy adviser at Amari.ai, described Microsoft’s move as “smoke and mirrors”, claiming there was no feasible way it would protect European citizens’ data from being transferred overseas to the US, where there is a lower standard of data protection.
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