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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @04:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @04:49PM (#77269)

    i dont know. but if it's "company data" then this is a good thing. it means that a company cannot go on environmental damage exploits (cheap cheap) in another country but will be held accountable to the laws of the country they are originally based in/from.
    on the other hand if the data is from a service like ..uhm ..ah... "free email" which is privacy sensitive at the moment then it maybe should be implemented as parent poster has noted: provide the actual physical data storage location but encrypted so only the person creating the data can decrypt it.
    obviously a company employee could then use said "free service: for .. umh ..ah ... company affairs : P