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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: 1) by wantkitteh on Monday August 04 2014, @03:43PM

    by wantkitteh (3362) on Monday August 04 2014, @03:43PM (#77241) Homepage Journal

    The UK government's recent "emergency" data retention laws, while claimed to be exactly the same as the EU data retention directive they're replacing, have quietly expanded their jurisdiction in the same way. It's like the EU said "this law is intolerable, get rid of it!" and the UK said "this law isn't intolerable enough, put it back and unleash the kraken as well for good measure!"