Nationality in the cloud: US clashes with Microsoft over seizing data from abroad

Microsoft and the US government are facing off in the second circuit court of appeals over the tech giant’s continuing refusal to hand over emails related to a narcotics case from a Hotmail account hosted in Ireland in 2013. Microsoft argues that its data should be protected by the laws of the land where its servers are located – a decision that will have major ramifications for cloud computing no matter which way it goes.
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