Microsoft offers overseas data storage in response to NSA concerns

[HDZx]

Microsoft offers overseas data storage in response to NSA concerns

 

The Verge

 

 

Today, Microsoft announced an unpredecented response to concerns of NSA data access, offering customers in foreign countries the option of having their data stored outside US borders. According to a Financial Times report, the company decided to launch the program after discovering the NSA was using their networks to surveil citizens of Brazil and the European Union. So far, Microsoft is the only major company offering explicitly non-US data storage, despite evidence that the agency has broken into the private networks of both Google and Yahoo.

While there's no guarantee the NSA won't be able to reach servers outside US borders, the move would offer an additional layer of protection, as local law enforcement is likely to respond more aggressively to agents of a foreign country. It also continues recent moves to shift web traffic away from the US in response to the NSA scandal, in Brazil and elsewhere. If privacy-conscious users want to shift away from the American parts of web, this latest offer ensures they'll be able to do so without shifting away from American companies like Microsoft.

 

[AlwaysFSX]

Why on EARTH would someone use that?! That's just allowing the NSA to access data overseas by some technicality of Microsoft being an American based company.

[MatheusSanzo]

They can still get it...

[Bloodyvalley]

They'll hack them anyway.

[Bluejay0]

Just like saying Macs can't get viruses. It can still get them.

[Fetzie]

They can still get it...

 

Yeah, but then it is at least illegal in that country.

[DefinitelyNotAPedophile]

So if the NSA spies on someone, they don't get shut down but if I spy on someone I get arrested? Wow nice move America

[dalekphalm]

Wow incredibly huge Microsoft bias in these comments here. Not a single comment praising Microsoft for their efforts to protect customer data. If this was another company doing the exact same thing, people would be all over it saying good job. So disappointed in the forum right now.

 

Personally, I congratulate them for doing SOMETHING. What is Google or Apple doing against the NSA?

[AlexGoesHigh]

Wow incredibly huge Microsoft bias in these comments here. Not a single comment praising Microsoft for their efforts to protect customer data. If this was another company doing the exact same thing, people would be all over it saying good job. So disappointed in the forum right now.

 

Personally, I congratulate them for doing SOMETHING. What is Google or Apple doing against the NSA?

QFT also people dont realize international companies like microsoft are subject to local regulation because they are its own company within those country on the legal aspect meaning if the NSA wants something from a ms server in japan they cant because its obviously outside their jurisdiction yeah sure the nsa will try an hack its way to the server but at least they cut the legal bs of it which is indeed something  

[sysloc]

If Microsoft is scared, boy you know shit ain't right...

Well it does possibly make it easier for everyone to access...

Touche

[HDZx]

If Microsoft is scared, boy you know shit ain't right...

Well it does possibly make it easier for everyone to access...

Touche

 

I don't think they are scared, I think they are just trying to bring more customers that may be holding back because of privacy concerns.

[totjup5]

Still runs on the same infrastructure to get back to the user... So yeah... I guess this is to make people who don't know anything feel safer.