Appeals Court Rules That U.S. Can’t Compel Companies To Turn Over Data Stored In Another Country

[Lucian Armasu]

Microsoft won an appeal against the U.S. government, which issued warrants that required the company to turn over the data held on servers in Ireland.

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[Mark RM]

It's basically up to us to protect our own data... encryption everywhere, make their lives miserable.

 

[Math Geek]

this case was about emails stored on a server overseas. nothing you can about that unless you ensure every single message anyone sends you or oyu send is an encrypted document or something. same goes with all the data companies are collecting on you. you have no control over how that is stored, transmitted or sold about.

this is what the gov loves to get their hands on and what MS was told to hand over. at least they won the first appeal. maybe it'll make it to the SCOTUS and we can get a better ruling for the whole country

 

[tsnor]

A win for data privacy. Now if only the US govt (my govt) protects its citizen data in the US the same way. Or just said there is no protection and used the data. This mirky secret use of the data is not right.

 

[manleysteele]

Unless and until each persons trees each and every one of their own congressional and senatorial candidates with a demand for privacy protection here in the US nothing is going to change. The courts have proven that they won't help.