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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Do we have to go back to saying freedom fries again?

And the connection is...

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

This French ruling is just as bad as this US ruling:

US Judge orders Microsoft to hand over data stored in Ireland

I guess borders mean nothing anymore.

I would venture to say that is precisely the same thing, but for all the reasons you don't think. Over there, it is a matter of information available in both locations, which therefore is/should be legally accessible from both locations.

Here it is a matter of information legally accessible in both locations, being marked illegal in one location... and that location (France) trying to make it illegal in the other location (USA).

In both cases, we are talking about universal data, and countries trying to control how that gets used in other countries.

France tries to stop Google from handing over data via google searches, in the US.
Microsoft tries to avoid handing over data to the US Courts, in the US.

I am noticing a trend here.



(Also, Google is more of a law-abiding corporation than Microsoft is. )