Microsoft's deputy security chief Matt Thomlinson told the Munich Security Conference on Friday it will open a "transparency centre" for EU governments in Brussels by end-2014. The centre will allow EU countries' officials to inspect Microsoft source code to verify it has not created "backdoors" to enable US snooping.
Germany says US not co-operating enough on NSA scandal
German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere at the Munich Security Conference Friday said the US is not doing enough to restore trust after the NSA scandal: "The information we are being provided with is not satisfactory and the political damage [of the NSA's work] is greater than the security benefit."