Reply to post: Re: data sovereignty is a PR issue?

Microsoft Azure capacity woes hit UK customers. Yes, you read that right

Frank Bitterlich

Re: data sovereignty is a PR issue?

Wel, that's not completely wrong - as long as the FBI can demand (and was confirmed in this by a US judge) the data regardless of where it is, as long as it is accessible from the US (i.e. any data), European data protection laws are just a PR issue and/or the cause of an extra paragraph of text in a National Security Letter.

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