{"id":10633,"date":"2014-04-28T23:44:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T23:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/apr\/29\/us-judge-orders-microsoft-give-overseas-cloud-data\/"},"modified":"2014-04-28T23:44:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T23:44:12","slug":"us-judge-orders-microsoft-to-give-up-overseas-cloud-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/us-judge-orders-microsoft-to-give-up-overseas-cloud-data\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge orders Microsoft to give up overseas cloud data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US judge has ruled that US-based providers must hand over customer emails even if they are stored in a location overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes amidst a challenge from Microsoft with regard to an Ireland-based customer, claiming that as the US government does not have jurisdiction overseas the company should not be forced to disclose user data.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Judge James C. Francis has dismissed this claim, further jeopardising the data security of US cloud providers.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Francis explained the issue at stake. &ldquo;Federal courts are without authority to issue warrants for the search and seizure of property outside the territorial limits of the United States,&rdquo; he noted. &ldquo;Therefore, Microsoft concludes, to the extent that the warrant here requires acquisition of information from Dublin, it is unauthorised and must be quashed.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &ldquo;That analysis, while not inconsistent with the statutory language, is undermined by the structure of the SCA (Stored &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US judge has ruled that US-based providers must hand over customer emails even if they are stored in a location overseas.<br \/>\nThe decision comes amidst a challenge from Microsoft with regard to an Ireland-based customer, claiming that as the US governmen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}