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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: 2, Insightful) by WizardFusion on Monday August 04 2014, @12:27PM

    by WizardFusion (498) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 04 2014, @12:27PM (#77173) Journal

    "Oh dear, the data that *was* held there, has been moved to another data-centre as part of a automated script. What a shame"

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @02:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @02:04PM (#77205)

    Ideally, this is how it should turn out (but then, I know quite well that this is a dream only):

    "Well, here's the data. Sorry, it's encrypted, we never store data unencrypted. No, we don't have the decryption key. Only our customers have the decryption key to their data."

  • (Score: 2) by Foobar Bazbot on Monday August 04 2014, @06:39PM

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Monday August 04 2014, @06:39PM (#77300) Journal

    Thank you Mario!

    But our princess is in another data-centre!