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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Sounds reasonable to me. Either obey the laws of the country you are in or don't do business there. Don't tell me you can brazenly violate the law of the land becaus you also do business in another country with different laws. While operating in one country you must obey the law in that country. You can access that data from the US and you use that data within the US, and in order to do so you must agree that that data falls under US law.
If it conflicts with other laws in other countries, too bad. You shouldn't get yourself into holes like that, it isn't any country's fault.
No I am not saying the US can demand Irish data used in Ireland for Irish citizens. That has never been to the US and does not fall under US jurisdiction.
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When I read all of the articles about this, it looks to me as if Microsoft was ordered to turn over the emails of one of its customers, not one of its employees. As far as I can see, the only "law" Microsoft broke was failing to turn over data that could
possibly be able to be used as evidence against one of its
customers.
Another point is that if Microsoft does turn over this data to the US court, it will be breaking the law in the country where the data is stored. In other words, they either defy the US court or break Irish Law.
Shari