The U.S Supreme Court is hearing a case today that will have significant impact going forward. NPR is reporting that the Supreme Court is hearing the case, United States v. Microsoft, which involves a federal drug-trafficking investigation where law enforcement obtained a warrant for all the data associated with the suspects Microsoft account. While Microsoft turned over all the data it had that was stored in Redmond Washington, they refused to disclose the content of the emails, as they were stored in a data center in Ireland.
While I'm the last one to think government should have more power, I actually agree with the U.S on this one. Microsoft is based in America, the data is on Microsoft servers under Microsoft control. We will have to see how it plays out, thanks to MrCaffeineX for the story.
Siding with Microsoft in this case are a raft of major tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. They point out that the public did not even have access to the Internet until 1989 and the "World Wide Web" didn't exist until 1991. Nor were emails stored after they were received. So Congress could not have intended to cover data that is stored forever in a cloud.
While I'm the last one to think government should have more power, I actually agree with the U.S on this one. Microsoft is based in America, the data is on Microsoft servers under Microsoft control. We will have to see how it plays out, thanks to MrCaffeineX for the story.
Siding with Microsoft in this case are a raft of major tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. They point out that the public did not even have access to the Internet until 1989 and the "World Wide Web" didn't exist until 1991. Nor were emails stored after they were received. So Congress could not have intended to cover data that is stored forever in a cloud.
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