• Obinice@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Let’s say this huge breach of security and privacy is okay.

    How are Microsoft ensuring these sensitive documents are not being transferred via or stored on servers located in hostile countries with lax data laws (such as foreign nations like the USA?).

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      15 hours ago

      Microsoft has already said it doesn’t matter where your data is stored, it isn’t safe from the United States.

      But you can change this behaviour in settings, it’s just the default for now.

      So, if you don’t trust Microsoft to handle your documents, but still somehow use MS Word and OneDrive, for the moment you can still stop it from saving your Word documents to their servers.