Microsoft offers to store personal data of EU customers
As part of a broader rollout of cloud storage, US tech giant Microsoft has offered to store its customers’ personal data in the European Union.
Microsoft announced this week that it would update its EU data cap for Microsoft Cloud, a company initiative “to store and process customer data and personal data for our Microsoft online business services.”
Before the new features, Microsoft had already enabled the processing and storage of some EU data, but with the update, data is now also included within system-generated logs, which are produced automatically using its services.
“Through significant investments and dedicated efforts of thousands of engineers, our EU data cap now enables the processing and storage of all data in the EU through Microsoft’s core cloud services: Azure, Microsoft 365 , Power Platform and Dynamics 365,” wrote Julie Brill. , corporate vice president and chief privacy officer at Microsoft.
Microsoft’s latest move comes as technology companies continue to increase their investments in EU data storage, particularly following changes to the region’s privacy and security legislation.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) previously stated in October that it would allow its EU servers to store customer data.
Microsoft added that later this year it will begin the next phase of its implementation of EU data caps. The next step will involve storing temporary transfer data related to technical support cases.
“We will ensure that supporting data is stored within limits, and where access from outside the EU is required to enable world-class support, we will limit and secure any required temporary data transfers through technical approaches such as virtual desktop infrastructure,” he added. Turbot.
“Our EU Data Boundary solution goes beyond European compliance requirements and reflects our commitment to providing reliable cloud services that are designed to harness the full power of the public cloud, while respecting European values and providing the necessary controls.” and sovereignty features available on the market. industry today.
Before the launch of these solutions, data storage was difficult for large companies to manage. As solutions have become so large, it has become difficult to track exactly where specific data is stored.
