US tech giant Microsoft has pledged to store all European cloud-based client data in Europe.

This comes amid tensions over the reach of US legislation on personal data collection.

Microsoft’s European clients have been concerned over the legal status of data they store with US companies in the cloud.

Those worries came to a head last year when the European Court cracked down on the EU and US Privacy Shield, as the privacy shield allows firms to transfer personal data to the US.

However, now it’s been found the mechanism doesn’t protest EU data from US authorities.

So Microsoft’s president says “If you are a commercial or public sector customer in the EU, we will go beyond our existing data storage commitments and enable you to process and store all your data in the EU.

“In other words, we will not need to move your data outside the EU.”