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Eire is Part of the USA According to US Court

posted by LaminatorX on Monday August 04 2014, @12:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the Erin-go-Here dept.

An anonymous coward writes:

Microsoft has been ordered to provide documents stored in an Ireland data centre to the US government. http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/08/microsoft-ordered-hand-over-dublin-data. Will this hinder US companies offering cloud services?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by khchung on Monday August 04 2014, @02:11PM

    by khchung (457) on Monday August 04 2014, @02:11PM (#77210)

    I was just going to write a post with the same subject.

    Since Microsoft had some money in the US, and EU court had ordered Microsoft to pay some fine in the past, the headline would then be "US is part of the EU according to EU court".

    I know we don't have much submissions, but sometimes, it is better to have fewer higher quality items, so people can focus more comments on those.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday August 04 2014, @03:51PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday August 04 2014, @03:51PM (#77247)

    The topic is interesting.
    Microsoft and most cloud providers are arguing to the courts that the US justice department cannot seize assets in another country. They're not trying to play semantics or protect the drug dealer in question. They said "you don't have jurisdiction in another country" and the judge replied "if it's digital, it's not another country".
    The US cloud providers just got handed a huge blow. Competitors must feel pretty good.

    Expect congress to get mightily funded to resolve that problem as soon as they're back from doing less nothing than usual.

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 04 2014, @05:55PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday August 04 2014, @05:55PM (#77290) Journal

    Better headline:
     
    US company still subject to US laws even if they store some data on an overseas server.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @06:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @06:59PM (#77307)

    Since Microsoft had some money in the US, and EU court had ordered Microsoft to pay some fine in the past, the headline would then be "US is part of the EU according to EU court".

    Are you suggesting that companies should not have to follow local laws and regulations for whichever country in which they're located, regardless of their origin? We should make offshoring even more lucrative and beneficial and simply make them above all laws!