Microsoft has reportedly shared the names of Dutch civil servants working for two regulatory agencies with the U.S. House of Representatives. The agencies involved include the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP), according to an article published on Friday by Vrij Nederland.
  • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Microsoft accused of leaking Dutch civil servants’ names to U.S. government

    Wait… Leaking? Aren’t they required to…

    American tech companies are required to share data with the U.S. government due to the Cloud Act in force in that country.

    No shit Sherlock. And you’re surprised? Let me guess: This shouldn’t have happened as they were required to store all this only on European servers but somehow MS was still required by the US to hand over that data? Although it was stored in Europe? On servers owned by an American company? On servers operated by an American company? A company that’s bound by American legislation?

    Oh well, that sucks. If only someone had told them that this might happen. But there’s one good thing: Because of the Privacy Shield, the American government and American companies still cannot use that data to do whatever they want with it, right? Because if they could, then all data transfers to and usage of products from American tech companies were likely already banned in Europe, right?

    sigh