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The first sentence of the article also mentions that Microsoft has been forced to do the same thing.



I went to a talk years ago by Microsoft just after they had opened some new data centres. The MS presenter showed a government data centre dab smack in-between MS, Google, and Yahoo!. I can't remember the complex name, it was near a hydro dam, sure it had Rose in the name. Basically the data centres where they for access to the higher quality grid and cheaper rates.

He was pitching Singapore data centres and made the joke that US could just tap into any of the data centres with a warrant just like that. Then his laugh died in dry painful way leading more or less everyone in the audience to assume that the warrants had already been issued.


No it doesn't:

> Gordon Frazer, Microsoft UK's managing director, made news headlines some weeks ago when he admitted that Microsoft can be compelled to share data with the US government regardless of where it is hosted in the world.


Read between the lines. Don't be naive.


I'm not being naive, I'm being factually accurate. I would 100% agree with the statement "Microsoft has probably done the same", for example, but this article does not provide supporting evidence that they have.


This is a news article. It sounds like you are assuming news=facts. Microsoft employs FUD in the media. In this case, they are making specific use of the U in FUD. They are neither confirming or denying that they have ever shared such information, thus one can safely assume they have. If they hadn't, they would come out and state that clearly.




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