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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 DeathMonkey on Monday August 04 2014, @05:55PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday August 04 2014, @05:55PM (#77290) Journal

    Better headline:
     
    US company still subject to US laws even if they store some data on an overseas server.

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