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US cannot force Microsoft to hand over emails stored abroad, court rules

  • 16-07-2016 12:46PM
    #1
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭


    Well colour me surprised.


    "A federal appeals court has ruled Microsoft Corp and other companies cannot be forced to turn over customer emails stored on servers outside the US"

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/14/microsoft-emails-court-ruling-us-government



    "Indeed, the Irish government had said it would have gladly helped the US Department of Justice obtain the records in question, related to a drug trafficking investigation, but they were not consulted."

    Course they would have, they're good at bending over.


    Id say this Drug trafficking case if it exists and not just the US testing its reach was some lad with 100g of bath salts, one of their private prisons was probably only running at 99.99% capacity or something.


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  • #2
    pah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,836 ✭✭✭pah


    _Tombstone_ wrote: »
    Well colour me surprised.

    "Indeed, the Irish government had said it would have gladly helped the US Department of Justice obtain the records in question, related to a drug trafficking investigation, but they were not consulted."

    It's called mutual assistance. Cooperation between international LE agencies is neccessary to investigate certain crimes.


  • #3
    t4ff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭t4ff


    _Tombstone_ wrote: »
    Id say this Drug trafficking case if it exists and not just the US testing its reach was some lad with 100g of bath salts, one of their private prisons was probably only running at 99.99% capacity or something.

    I believe the cause of the data request stems from the SilkRoad case - SilkRoad administrator 'Libertas' was arrested here in Ireland and the FBI want access to his private e-mails stored by Microsoft to help them build a case for extradition.

    hxxp://ibtimes.com/silk-road-emails-center-microsofts-irish-email-battle-us-government-report-2385320 (new user, cannot post links :()


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