[lovebeans]

Yes and this is a good thing. No organization, no matter how large or powerful, should be beyond the reach of the law.

[preisschild]

Ideally they wouldnt even have this key / the private data in the first place

[lovebeans]

The user can opt out of this if they want.

[stabbles]

That's a false dichotomy. You can hold an organization accountable to the law without requiring them to maintain a "master key" to your private data.

[lovebeans]

It isn't required.

[Dylan16807]

I have no idea what you mean. If the user keys were protected, that would not put Microsoft beyond the reach of the law. To Microsoft it's just a few bytes they never do anything with.