The U.S. access to our data in the cloud

The U.S. access to our data in the cloud
2 days ago at Microsoft worldwide and also in Austria released the cloud version of its Office products. It was also once again very clear that Microsoft is due to the U.S. legislation - the Patriot Act - will be forced to publish anything and everything. This can even go so far that Microsoft does not inform its customers of it may.

European customers have to ask yourself now so that they can take services from Microsoft or any other U.S. companies such as Amazon and Apple's claim, even without coming into conflict with the law.

 

Also Heise is now investigated this question and writes: "According to Thilo Weichert, head of the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ULD), such a data transfer from the EU territory has been at odds with European data protection law. The risk of data forwarding ask the confidentiality of the data hosted in Microsoft data centers and application and question existing custodial contracts for data processing service basis. According to Weichert'll be derived from one hand a special right, and it excludes other service providers such as the Office-365 and Microsoft Windows Azure party as a candidate for personal IT services. Companies should therefore be limited in the use of cloud services for personal data solely on purely European service providers. "