BSCC-FOI-0325-HD: data uploaded to Microsoft services
Updated 14 April 2025
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From:
Office of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
4 April 2025
To: [redacted]
Ref: BSCC-FOI-0325-HD
Letter by email
Dear [redacted]
I write in response to an email received by our office on Monday 24th March 2025 in which you asked:
“Please supply me with any information, documentation, contract clause change or emails, etc. that you have received in the past two years which identify any countries where Microsoft can or actually do process any data you have uploaded to the following services:
1 - Any service operated by or on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform by any of your processors or contracted service providers (including a direct contract with Microsoft)
2 - Any Microsoft M365 service
For the purposes of this request you should consider any offshored administration or direct system support as being ‘processing’, whether this relates to personal data or not - this is not a GDPR specific request.”
Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The Commissioner is independent of, but appointed by, government. As the Commissioner’s role is currently vacant, the Office of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner has provided this response to your query in their absence. We are an arm’s length body of the Home Office and responsibility for facilities management, including IT and contracts, is managed by the Home Office. Therefore, we do not hold the information that you have requested.
You may wish to consider a separate request to be made to the Home Office under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act should you still require the information you have asked for.
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to the address below, quoting reference BSCC-FOI-0325-HD. If you ask for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.
Mark Greenhorn
14th Floor Lunar House Building
40 Wellesley Road, Croydon
CR9 2BY
e-mail: Sciencesupportfoi@homeoffice.gov.uk
As part of any internal review, our handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Kind regards,
Office of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
Email: enquiries@obscc.org.uk