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Cynthia Kroet

Microsoft pledges to take legal action if governments try to seize EU data

Microsoft is prepared to go to court to back up its contractual commitments to protect Europe’s digital resilience in times of geopolitical volatility, the company's president has said.

Brad Smith pledged during an event in Brussels on Wednesday to protect Microsoft's European customer data and “agreed to challenge any government demand for EU public sector or enterprise customer data where we have a legal basis for doing so.”

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