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The Supreme Court Will Decide If the US Can Access Anyone's Data on Earth

posted by mrpg on Tuesday October 17 2017, @08:31PM   
from the inconceivable dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would hear a major digital privacy case that will determine whether law enforcement officials can demand user data stored by technology companies in other countries.

In 2013, federal investigators obtained a warrant for emails and identifying information tied to a Microsoft Outlook account they believed was being used to organize drug trafficking. The problem was that the emails were stored overseas in Ireland, where the anonymous user of the account registered as a resident.
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If the court sides with the Department of Justice lawyers in this new case, the government will have unfettered access to the data tech companies store all over the world, provided it has a warrant. During the appeals court case, Microsoft's lawyers argued that the US is essentially trying to say that its laws extend across borders.

A superpower can demand all the extraterritoriality it wants.

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• Re:Woops! That should be: "any user data that are" Re:Woops! That should be: "any user data that are" (Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:43PM (3 children)

  by edIII (791) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @11:43PM (#583725)

  As if that debate is settled by any means....

  Grammar Myths [onlinegrammar.com.au]

  For most uses I prefer the singular. If it is plural we are almost always talking about records and recordsets, or files, etc. In most uses data can be treated similar to the word information. Also, according to your rules, datum points is the correct way to state it, but that is almost never used. Data points *is* what is used.

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• So, use "datum" in that case. So, use "datum" in that case. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @02:13AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @02:13AM (#583764)

  The word "data" is plural.

  The singular form is "datum".

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  • Re:So, use "datum" in that case. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:11AM (#583787)

    That battle's already been lost, like "literally" is now meaning "figuratively".

    The singular form is "a piece/point of data", at best. Treat it like mass noun. "Sugar", "flour", "data".

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  • Re:So, use "datum" in that case. (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:52AM (#583795)

    Data is a collective noun, if you want the singular, it's not datum, that's wrong, the singular is piece of data.

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