"From a management perspective, the path was clear to Teams,"
"The point is that every voice message will be processed on external computer systems which are not under our full control,"
"At the end of the day, if a security agency from the US wants to force a US vendor to pull out data, then they have to do this."
Austria's Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism replaced Skype for Business with an open-source collaboration suite hosted on its own servers after IT, security and legal teams judged Microsoft Teams posed an unacceptable risk. Officials cited that call and message data processed by a US vendor could be subject to foreign government access requests, and that external systems would not be under full national control. The new deployment serves 1,200 staff. Microsoft Teams has about 320 million monthly users globally. Growing geopolitical tensions have increased urgency around digital sovereignty, prompting European organizations to reassess control over applications, infrastructure and data.
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