[pacohope]

This is an idiotic article. Read carefully before you decide what you think.

1. Scroll anonymously reposted a poorly-written article from DNA. (First link in first sentence)

2. Look at the facts quoted in the article. "Banks know that Microsoft MIGHT be sharing". (emphasis mine) What does the title say? It doesn't say what the banks say. Banks know that it COULD happen under some circumstances. The article title omits any sense of uncertainty and says it definitely already has happened. Those are different.

3. The article quotes a number of 3,036 requests for "Indian customers in the US" which means NOT PEOPLE IN INDIA. And certainly not customers of RBI in India (which the article would have you believe). Indian nationals living in the US have a different expectation with respect to US law enforcement.

4. Microsoft has issued a strong and clear rebuttal.https://news.microsoft.com/en-in/setting-the-record-straight...

This was wild conjecture, un-sourced anonymous writing, and it was poorly fact-checked. It looks like the author saw a single document that they didn't understand. Then they wrote a bunch of conspiracy theory bogey-man nonsense that has nothing to do with the document they saw.