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Re:New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cooki... by gls2ro on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:00AM (#29623885)
IANAL but I dont think a parent company can ask a local branch to not follow local rules.

So for example if in EU is forbidden to store information without consent the local branch cannot do that on EU servers.

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Re:New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cooki... by luckylion on Monday December 20, 2021 @09:12AM (#29625108)
I don't know whether they can, but Microsoft tried to work around that by having (one of?) their German Azure DCs be managed bei Deutsche Telekom for exactly that reason: their relationship would be defined by a contract, but Microsoft does not own Telekom and thus can't send them a memo to ignore the contract.

I don't know the details, but I'm sure Microsoft considered whether it would be enough to just stick a "Microsoft Deutschland GmbH" label on it.

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