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Re:Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard by asuffield on Monday February 16, 2015 @04:51PM (#9059275)
Forerunner? It's a cut down version of https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-terms which has been in place for quite some time.

(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion, not my employers. Not representing anybody other than myself. I work at Google, not on cloud, although I routinely fire my nerf gun at people who do)

Re:Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard by yummybear on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @01:44PM (#9064129)
It wasn't a jab at competitors, neither an attempt to make MS seem like /the/ forerunner. Just to say that it's definately a different MS we're seeing.