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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) by sjames on Monday August 04 2014, @04:25PM

    by sjames (2882) on Monday August 04 2014, @04:25PM (#77261) Journal

    Fully agreed. The court ruled that MS is a US company and so is subject to U.S. law.

    If MS and co have a problem with that, perhaps they'd care to throw in with the citizens (for once) and protest the NSA and other government snoops.

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday August 04 2014, @07:48PM

    by HiThere (866) on Monday August 04 2014, @07:48PM (#77323) Journal

    Trouble is, the judge may have ordered the subsidiary in Eire to violate Irish law. I'm not really sure that happened, but if not it was extremely close to such a situation, and IIUC no legal distinction was made as to whether the demanded action would be illegal for the subsidiary to perform.

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    • (Score: 2) by sjames on Monday August 04 2014, @09:26PM

      by sjames (2882) on Monday August 04 2014, @09:26PM (#77369) Journal

      That is a huge legal gray area that may well come to the forefront. The U.S. courts have jurisdiction to order MS to turn over information that it is in possession of (wherever it may be physically stored) but the EU court has jurisdiction over data physically stored in the EU.

      Lawyers could battle for a very long time deciding how that resolves.