Η Microsoft takes the step that other technology companies seem hesitant about. The company has decided to move the data belonging to its foreign clients to servers outside the United States, if they so wish, following the NSA scandal.
Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, says this action is necessary in light of them information revealed by Edward Snowden's files on the NSA's surveillance practices.
"People should be able to know if their data is subject to the laws and access of the governments of another country and should be able to consciously choose where they are."
Smith said Financial Times .
In addition, customers will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of existing centers data of Microsoft around the world.
This is a very important step from a company as big as Microsoft, especially considering the current international context. Citizens from around the world have expressed their dissatisfaction with the lack of respect of the United States to their right to privacy, international commissions have begun to analyze the damage to the Internet and its leaders world έχουν επικρίνει τις ΗΠΑ για espionage against them.
At the same time, the White House announced a series of reforms to the NSA, which the president presented last week. Reforms, however, will not change things, and in particular.
Hopefully, Microsoft's example will be followed by other big companies, such as Google, Facebook, etc., which have already criticized the United States government for letting the NSA spy on the world.
