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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, @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.

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