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  • No they do not have copies of every Bitlocker key.

    Bitlocker by default creates a 48-bit recovery code that can be used to unlock an encrypted drive. If you run Windows with a personal Microsoft account it offers to backup that code into your Microsoft account in case your system needs recovered. The FBI submitted a supoena to request the code for a person’s encrypted drive. Microsoft provided it, as required by law.

    Bitlocker does not require that key be created, and you don’t have to save it to Microsoft’s cloud.

    This is just a case of people not knowing how things work and getting surprised when the data they save in someone else’s computer is accessed using the legal processes.