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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, @06:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @06:59PM (#77307)

    Since Microsoft had some money in the US, and EU court had ordered Microsoft to pay some fine in the past, the headline would then be "US is part of the EU according to EU court".

    Are you suggesting that companies should not have to follow local laws and regulations for whichever country in which they're located, regardless of their origin? We should make offshoring even more lucrative and beneficial and simply make them above all laws!