Actually, I strongly assume, no, I take it for granted that Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter are tools of US foreign policy and support the Us government regarding info collection and options for interventions that else would be handled and taken care of by the intelligence services. I strongly assume that thes ecompoanies could not opt out even if they would want that - if they reveal their compliance with according demands by the adminsitraiton a nd governmental services, the responsible directors of mentione companies would risk to end up in prison for year - in compliance with existing US laws threatening up to 5 years for this "offence". Its also about a wanted US option to conduct business espionage more easily, of course. But if a company uses cloud services for in any way sensitive business or project data, then that is n aivety on a level and of a scale that I could not imagine even if I were fully drunk.
Meanwhile , new illustrations of how you cannot shut down the always too much tracking telemetry even of W10 Enterprise:
https://xato.net/windows-spying-and-...t-19203babb2e7
What the future holds? Chipping humans, even babies already.
No, I do not mean that as a joke. I am bloody serious.