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graemep 3 days ago

That does not really much much difference. The US can still sanction people working for the ICC very effectively:

https://www.heise.de/en/news/How-a-French-judge-was-digitall...

and it can demand access do data:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_c...

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crazygringo 3 days ago | parent [-]

None of that has anything to do with whether Microsoft is trying to assist the government. The cloud companies are doing what they can to protect themselves against these government actions.

	▲	graemep 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> The cloud companies are doing what they can to protect themselves against these government actions. No, they are doing what they can to convince customers that they are trying to protect themselves against government actions. In fact its all smoke and mirrors. See the second link. AWS have admitted that the Cloud Act does allow the US government to compel access to French data.