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Published: 24 April 2025

FOI 2024/25-122 - Information on countries in which Microsoft process data uploaded to Azure cloud or M365

Category: FOI

Report Summary

Issued 11 April 2025, this FOI response provides some information held regarding data sovereignty and explains that some information held is publicly available with a link provided to assist.

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Request

Your request for information dated 24 March 2025 is copied below.

Please supply me with any information, documentation, contract clause change or emails, etc. that you have received in the past two years which identify any countries where Microsoft can or actually do process any data you have uploaded to the following services:

1 - Any service operated by or on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform by any of your processors or contracted service providers (including a direct contract with Microsoft)

2 - Any Microsoft M365 service

For the purposes of this request you should consider any offshored administration or direct system support as being ‘processing’, whether this relates to personal data or not - this is not a GDPR specific request.


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