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Microsoft, US face off again over emails stored in Ireland |
September 04, 2015
A dispute between Microsoft and the U.S. government over turning over emails stored in a data center in Ireland comes up for oral arguments in an appeals court in New York on Wednesday.Microsoft holds that an outcome against it could affect the trust of its cloud customers abroad as well as affect relationships between the U.S. and other governments which have their own data protection and privacy laws.Customers outside the U.S. would be concerned about extra-territorial access to their user information, the company has said. A decision against Microsoft could also establish a norm that could allow foreign governments to reach into computers in the U.S. of companies over which they assert jurisdiction, to seize the private correspondence of U.S. citizens.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2980428/microsoft-us-face-off-again-over-emails-stored-in-ireland.html#tk.rss_all
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