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

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.