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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 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.

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