Microsoft’s privacy changes to its online enterprise cloud storage system won EU regulators’ approval for meeting the bloc’s stringent data protection standards, a move that could force rivals to follow suit. Global corporate cloud providers such as Amazon, Verizon and Salesforce will be under growing pressure to make similar commitments as the protection of digitally stored information has become a priority for companies in Europe following revelations that US spies covertly collected the data of millions of Europeans.
