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Microsoft will not send EU data to US to ease GDPR fears
The company said its plan ‘goes beyond European compliance requirements’
Microsoft will let customers store all personal data within the European Union instead of having it flow to the US where national privacy laws do not exist.
The changes apply to services including Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365, the Seattle-based technology company said.
Cloud computing companies have been moving to localise data storage and processing amid tightening requirements in the EU under the GDPR.
Brussels and Washington have spent years wrangling over ...
