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mnholt | 3 years ago

> Many of European states (including mine) are looking into ways of replacing Teams and Office 365.

Can you explain why this is the case?

As a U.S. based user dealing with Government work o365 GCC High seems basically required. :/

I loathe Teams, but MSFT makes it hard to choose something else when it's included in all o365 tiers.

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mikae1|3 years ago

> Can you explain why this is the case?

Because Schrems II[1].

As an example, the city of Stockholm will stop using 365[2] (for the time being).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Schrems_II

[2] https://www-nyteknik-se.translate.goog/digitalisering/besked...

cassianoleal|3 years ago

I'm not GP but I'm guessing it's for data sovereignty reasons.

Microsoft is a US company subject to the CLOUD Act. The US Govt don't need to worry about this since the act was passed for their own benefit. Other countries do.

shakna|3 years ago

The US CLOUD Act is incompatible with the GDPR. The goals are the complete opposite and complying with both is extremely difficult, leading to several recent cases ruling that using Google services is likely illegal in the EU.