Hosted in Europe. Governed elsewhere.
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CLOUD Act — Microsoft Ireland, 2018
Data hosted inside the EU stayed legally reachable by US authorities.
Where the servers sit does not decide which law applies. The vendor’s nationality does.
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Copilot and Microsoft Graph
Your emails, files and chats are indexed by a US-operated AI pipeline.
Graph builds a searchable map of everything your organisation produces. Copilot reads from it.
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Executive decisions
An ICC prosecutor’s email was suspended after a US executive order.
A political decision taken in one country removed a European institution’s access to its own account.
Nothing here was a malfunction. It is the architecture.

