[like_any_other]

Good? Law enforcement shouldn't be relying on pinky-promises of foreign corporations that they'll keep information confidential anyway, so if this keeps them from using MS SaaS, all the better. That this will force Scotland to develop enough native IT expertise to replace these services (which may one day grow into a viable business) is just an added bonus.

[matt-p]

Scotland has less than a tenth of the population of England, and 0 cloud regions.

Around ~70,000 workers in IT/Tech and only two or three real colo datacentres of any note (>140 racks).

[like_any_other]

What they need is the functional equivalent of a basement with filing cabinets. And used to be just that. Countries of any size should do this in-house. I cannot overemphasize how bad an idea outsourcing police records is.

And did we forget computers were supposed to make paperwork easier? And now just storing the paperwork requires a foreign multinational company.

[matt-p]

I agree, 5-10 years ago businesses would have a RAID 5 server in a closet backing up to azure. Even that would be a big step up from office 365