Microsoft Corp. announced on Thursday that starting on January 1 certain of its cloud customers in the European Union will be allowed to process and store some of their data there. All of its main cloud services, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and the Power BI platform, will be subject to the “EU data barrier.” Since the EU implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, large organizations have grown more concerned about the worldwide movement of customer data.
The European Commission, which serves as the executive branch of the EU, is developing ideas to safeguard the privacy of European customers whose data is sent to the US. The multinational technology company runs over a dozen data centers in Europe. It attempts to simplify for customers the process of determining where their data is stored and if it conforms with regulations like the GDPR.
Microsoft has previously stated that it would contest requests from the government for user data and that it would pay any customers whose data it released in violation of GDPR.
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