{"id":33713,"date":"2018-03-01T12:31:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=d409b7b017a5aabb00eae3fdfc703893"},"modified":"2018-03-01T12:31:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:31:37","slug":"microsoft-still-wont-hand-over-private-email-data-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-still-wont-hand-over-private-email-data-to-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft still won\u2019t hand over private email data to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Lee Bell<\/a><\/span>
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Microsoft still won\u2019t hand over private email data to the US that sits at the focus of a long-running court case with the US government.<\/p>\n

The case, which has been ongoing since 2013, revolves around information related to a US criminal case that’s held in Microsoft’s Dublin data centre. Despite the fact the data resides in the Republic of Ireland, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has demanded the company hand it over, as it’s an American entity. The suspects in the case are also believed to be American.

In January 2017, a US appeals court rejected a government appeal to rethink its denial of the attempts to get Microsoft to hand over the Outlook.com email, which has something to do with a drug trafficking prosecution.<\/p>\n

The EU\u00a0intervened in the case in December<\/a>\u00a0to ensure the US Department of Justice (DoJ) understands European data laws. The EU claimed that because the data would have to be moved from Europe to the US, it would come under EU data protection laws.

At the time, the European Commission submitted an amicus brief – information filed by non-litigants to give the court a better understanding of a matter – to help it make a decision about whether the data should be handed over or not.

This week, however, liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg wondered why Congress isn\u2019t regulating \u201cthis brave new world\u201d of cloud storage, rather than expecting the nation\u2019s top court to interpret the legality of a warrant obtained under the dusty old 1986 Stored Communications Act.

\u201c[In 1986,] no one ever heard of clouds. This kind of storage didn\u2019t exist\u2026 If Congress takes a look at this, realising that much time and\u2026 innovation has occurred since 1986, it can write a statute that takes account of various interests,\u201d said Justice Ginsburg\u00a0in an oral argument<\/a>\u00a0filling.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0

\u201cWouldn\u2019t it be wiser to say, \u2018Let\u2019s leave things as they are. If Congress wants to regulate this \u2018brave new world\u2019 let them do it\u2019?\u201d

Microsoft\u2019s lawyer, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, retorted: \u201cIf people want to break the law and put their emails outside the reach of the US government, they simply wouldn\u2019t use Microsoft.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft still won\u2019t hand over private email data to the US that sits at the focus of a long-running court case with the US government.
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