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> Also how the Danish public sector is talking about GDPR/Cloud Act in relation to O365 and similar services.

"Microsoft says it. We believe it. That settles it."

Really, there's no other option: Even if they magically got the ability to audit source code, the whole point of a cloud service is that the code can be changed at any point. Even if you extract a promise from Microsoft that the code won't be changed... well, see Figure 1. You're operating on trust that Microsoft will abide the agreement, and trust that you'll be able to magically tell if they don't.



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